mutilation

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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

Related terms

• body modification

Translations

act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated

• Catalan: mutilació f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 殘毀／残毁 (zh), 残毁 (zh) (cánhuǐ), 殘割／残割, 残割 (cángē)

• Finnish: silpominen, pahoinpitely (fi)
• French: mutilation (fr) f
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• German: Verstümmelung (de)
• Japanese: 切断 (ja) (setsudan), 不具 (ja) (fugu), 骨抜き (honenuki)
• Russian: уве́чье (ru) n (uvéčʹje)
• Spanish: mutilación (es) f
• Swedish: stympning (sv) c

Anagrams

• ultimation

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French

Etymology

From Latin mutilatio.

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.