mutilation

Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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mutilation (countable and uncountable, plural mutilations)

1. The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.
   • 2015 December 23, “Indian women who are fighting to stop genital mutilation”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The cruel practice of female genital mutilation is banned in many countries globally, but it remains widespread among the Bohras - a small Muslim community in India. Now, some Bohra women have started a campaign demanding an end to the ritual, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.

• female genital mutilation
• male genital mutilation

• body modification

• ultimation

From Latin mutilātiōnem.

• IPA^(key): /my.ti.la.sjɔ̃/

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mutilation f (plural mutilations)

1. mutilation

• mutiler

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