mutilation

English

Etymology

Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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Noun

mutilation (countable and uncountable, plural mutilations)

1. The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.

Hyponyms

• female genital mutilation
• male genital mutilation

Derived terms

• genital mutilation
• self-mutilation

Translations

act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated

Bulgarian: осакатяване n (osakatjavane) Catalan: mutilació f Chinese: Mandarin: 殘毀 / 残毁 (zh) (cánhuǐ), 殘割 / 残割 (cángē) Dutch: verminking (nl) f Finnish: silpominen, pahoinpitely (fi) French: mutilation (fr) f German: Verstümmelung (de) Hungarian: csonkítás (hu) Indonesian: mutilasi (id) Italian: mutilazione (it) f Japanese: 切断 (ja) (setsudan), 不具 (ja) (fugu), 骨抜き (ja) (honenuki) Kazakh: мертігу (mertıgu) Portuguese: mutilação (pt) f Romanian: csonkítás, mutilare (ro) Russian: уве́чье (ru) n (uvéčʹje) Spanish: mutilación (es) f Swedish: stympning (sv) c

See also

• body modification

Anagrams

• ultimation

French

Etymology

From Latin mutilātiōnem.

Pronunciation

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Noun

mutilation f (plural mutilations)

1. mutilation

Related terms

• mutiler

Further reading

• “mutilation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.