All 3 Uses of
mutilate
in
Jane Eyre
- Will He accept a mutilated sacrifice?†
Chpt 34 *
- He stretched his right hand (the left arm, the mutilated one, he kept hidden in his bosom); he seemed to wish by touch to gain an idea of what lay around him: he met but vacancy still; for the trees were some yards off where he stood.†
Chpt 37
- "On this arm, I have neither hand nor nails," he said, drawing the mutilated limb from his breast, and showing it to me.†
Chpt 37
Definition:
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(mutilate) severely injure or damage -- for example by cutting up