Both Uses
mutilate
in
The Old Man and the Sea
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- He did not like to look at the fish anymore since he had been mutilated. When the fish had been hit it was as though he himself were hit.
p. 103.2 *mutilated = disfigured (severely damaged)
- He did not want to think of the mutilated under-side of the fish.†
p. 111.1mutilated = severely injured or damaged
Definitions:
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(1)
(mutilate) severely injure or damage -- for example by cutting up
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)