I.to crop or clip close, to shave; hence, trop., to defraud, cheat, fleece one of his money (only in Plaut.): “tu Persa's, qui me usque admutilavisti ad cutem,” you have shorn me to the skin, Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 48; id. Mil. 3, 1, 173; id. Capt. 2, 2, 19 (cf. the simple verb, Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 8).
ad-mŭtĭlo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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