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Definition: Mutilation |
MutilationNoun1. An injury that deprives you of a limb or other important body part. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "mutilation" was first used: 1525. (references) |
Etymology: Mutilation \Mu`ti*la"tion\, noun. [Latin expression mutilatio: compare to the French expression mutilation.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Injuries to the body. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Disfigurement (mutilation) is a word which generally has negative connotation. A disfigurement is some harmful modification of an organism's body. In history, "popular" disfigurements have (as a form of torture) included damage to ears, eyes, feet, genitalia, hands, noses, teeth, and/or tongues. Forms of disfigurement have included amputation, burning, flagellation, piercing, skinning, and wheeling.Genital mutilation is a name for various types of non-medical alteration of the genitals.
The most common forms are:
Disfigurement, when viewed positively, is known as body modification.
- circumcision
- genital piercing
- female genital mutilation
- castration
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Disfigurement."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Tongue splitting is a type of body modification in which the tongue is cut from its tip partway towards its base, forking the end. It may affect speech more or less, but reportedly can enhance the pleasure of kissing and one may be able to learn to move the forks of the tongue independently. It is not permitted everywhere and some surgeons may refuse to do it.It was also used as a punishment in the Byzantine Empire. When an emperor was overthrown (as happened frequently), he often had his tongue split, according to the tradition that such a mutilation made an emperor ineligible to rule again. (Alternate punishments were slicing off the nose, or blinding.)
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Amorphism | Disfigurement, defacement; mutilation; deforming. |
Evil | Blow, buffet, stroke, scratch, bruise, wound, gash, mutilation; mortal blow, wound; immedicabile vulnus; damage, loss; (deterioration). |
Nonaddition Subtraction | Noun: subtraction, subduction; deduction, retrenchment; removal, withdrawal; ablation, sublation; abstraction; (taking); garbling; Verb: mutilation, detruncation; amputation; abscission, excision, recision; curtailment; minuend, subtrahend; decrease; abrasion. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Mutilation |
| English words defined with "mutilation": Defiguration, distort ♦ falsify ♦ garble ♦ maim, mayhem ♦ warp. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "mutilation": higbee cut, hits. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "mutilation": Defiguration. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Mutilation" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (mutilation). |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Children | Cameroon | During a crime wave in the country's largest cities of Yaounde and Douala, newspaper reports often cited children as victims of kidnaping, mutilation, and even infanticide. (references) |
Canada | Changes to the law in 1997 strengthened tools to combat child prostitution and prohibited female genital mutilation, which is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | In the first half of the year, members of FESCI repeatedly attacked teachers, and there were numerous violent conflicts between FESCI rival groups, which resulted in the mutilation or death of several students. (references) |
Discrimination | Liberia | There are no laws against gender discrimination, ethnic discrimination, or female genital mutilation (FGM). Differences involving ethnic groups, notably the Krahn and Mandingo ethnic groups, continued to contribute to serious political violence and abuses. (references) |
Economic History | Nigeria | Other human rights problems included infringements on freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, and travel; violence and discrimination against women; and female genital mutilation. (references) |
Human Rights | Uganda | No new incidents of mutilation were reported. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | Prostitution is a growing problem, and female genital mutilation (FGM) is widespread. (references) |
Tanzania | Violence and discrimination against women and female genital mutilation (FGM) remained serious problems. (references) | |
Benin | The practice of female genital mutilation (FGM) and, to a lesser extent, infanticide also remained problems. (references) | |
Women | Djibouti | After the 1995 U.N. Women's Conference in Cairo, Egypt, the UNFD declared that all forms of mutilation should be forbidden. (references) |
Benin | Female genital mutilation (FGM) is condemned widely by international health experts as damaging to both physical and psychological health. (references) | |
Malaysia | Almost all Malay women, including Muslim women's activists, do not believe that this constitutes mutilation or reduces a woman's future capacity for sexual pleasure. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Mutilation" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mutilation" is used about 93 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 93 | 34,067 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "mutilation": mutilation of telegraphic signals ♦ Self Mutilation. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "mutilation": auto-mutilation, self-mutilation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "mutilation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | shtrembërim (contortion, defacement, deflection, deflexion, deformation, distortion, misrepresentation, perversion, warp), sakatim (disablement, maim, mayhem), gjymtim (deformity, disablement, dismemberment, maim, maiming, Mar). (various references) | |
Arabic | جذع (body, mutilate, stem, stock, trunk), إفساد (circumvention, depravation, deterioration, disfiguration, infection, perversion, vitiation), بتر (amputate, amputation, curtail, maim, mangle, mutilate, resect, resection, stump, take off, truncate). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | разваляне (contamination, deformation, depravation, undoing, vitiation), осакатяване (crippling, dismemberment, injury, maiming, mayhem), изопачаване (contortion, corruption, deformation, distortion, falsification, manipulation, misrepresentation, travesty, twist). (various references) | |
Chinese | 切断 (Mutilate, Mutilated, Mutilating, sever, severance, severed, severing). (various references) | |
Czech | zmrzaèení (crippling, mayhem), zkomolení (distortion, truncation). (various references) | |
Danish | mutilation, skamfering, operativt indgreb, lemlæstelse. (various references) | |
Dutch | verminking. (various references) | |
Finnish | sähkötyssignaalien vääristyminen (mutilation of telegraphic signals). (various references) | |
French | mutilation. (various references) | |
German | verstümmelung (distortion, garbling, maiming). (various references) | |
Greek | κολόβωση (curtailment, truncation), σακάτεμα, ακρωτηριασμόσ (amputation), ακρωτηριασμός (amputation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מום (blemish, defect, deformity, disability, fault, impediment, maim), קטיעת איבר, "טלת מום (mayhem). (various references) | |
Hungarian | megcsonkítás (dismemberment, emasculation, mayhem), csonkítás (concision, defacement, mayhem). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pemotongan (dismemberment, dissection, excision). (various references) | |
Italian | mutilazione (defacement, maiming). (various references) | |
Korean | 의폐'". (various references) | |
Manx | lhottey (hurt, injure, mutilate, wound, wounding). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | utilationmay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | mutilação (curtailment, defacement, mayhem). (various references) | |
Romanian | mutilare (emasculation), masacrare, schilodire (mayhem), deformare (deformation, deformity, disfigurement, distortion). (various references) | |
Russian | увечье, искажение (contortion, deformation, distortion, falsification, misrepresentation, perturbation, perversion, wrench). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | unakaženost (disfigurement), sakaćenje (crippling, maim), osakaćenje (mayhem). (various references) | |
Spanish | mutilación (defacement, emasculation, maim). (various references) | |
Swedish | stympning. (various references) | |
Thai | การทำให้พิการ. (various references) | |
Turkish | sakatlama, bozma (annulment, breach, breaking, cancel, cancellation, changing, corruption, defacement, dislocation, dissolution, exchange, impairment, infraction, infringement, obliteration, perversion, ruining, spoiling, stain, violation, vitiation). (various references) | |
Turkmen | юikes (breakage). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | каліцтво (maim, punishment), перекручення (distortion, garble, perversion, wrench). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tổn thương, sự l m th nh t n tật, sự l m què, sự cắt (clipping, cut, cut-off, cut-out, cutting, disconnection, disconnexion, excision, section). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | concisione, concisionis, mutilare. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "mutilation": mutilations. (additional references) | |
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"Mutilation" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mutalation, mutilatiion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "mutilation" (pronounced myuw'tulā"shun) |
| 7 | -t u l ā" sh u n | constellation, distillation, installation, titillation, ventilation. |
| 6 | -u l ā" sh u n | fibrillation, accumulation, adulation, annihilation, appellation, articulation, assimilation, calculation, cancellation, capitulation, coagulation, compilation, confabulation, congratulation, consolation, correlation, demodulation, depopulation, deregulation, desolation, elation, emulation, escalation, exhalation, extrapolation, formulation, gastrulation, granulation, inhalation, inoculation, insulation, isolation, jubilation, manipulation, miscalculation, modulation, oscillation, overpopulation, overregulation, ovulation, population, recalculation, regulation, reregulation, revelation, simulation, speculation, stimulation, stipulation, strangulation, tabulation, tribulation, vacillation, violation. |
| 5 | -l ā" sh u n | contemplation, deflation, dilation, disinflation, ejaculation, hyperinflation, inflation, legislation, reflation, relation, stagflation, translation, triangulation. |
| 4 | -ā" sh u n | facilitation, falsification, fascination, federation, fermentation, fertilization, figuration, filtration, abrogation, acceleration, acclimation, accommodation, abbreviation, abdication, aberration, abomination, accreditation, accusation, acidification, activation, adaptation, adjudication, administration, admiration, adoration, advocation, affectation, affiliation, affirmation, agglomeration, aggravation, agitation, alienation, allegation, alleviation, allocation, alphabetization, alteration, altercation, amalgamation, amelioration, amortization, amplification, amputation, animation, annexation, annotation, anticipation, antidiscrimination, application, appreciation, approbation, appropriation, approximation, arbitration, argumentation, aspiration, assassination, association, augmentation, authentication, authorization, automation, aviation, avocation, balkanization, bifurcation, calibration, cannibalization, capitalization, carnation, castration, categorization, causation, celebration, centralization, certification, cessation, cetacean, characterization, citation, civilization, clarification, classification, codification, cogeneration, cogitation, cohabitation, collaboration, collectivization, colonization, coloration, colorization, combination, commemoration, commendation, commercialization, communication, communization, compensation, complication, computation, computerization, concatenation, concentration, conciliation, condemnation, condensation, confederation, configuration, confirmation, confiscation, conflagration, confrontation, conglomeration, congregation, conjugation, connotation, consecration, conservation, consideration, consolidation, consternation, constipation, consultation, consummation, contamination, continuation, conversation, convocation, cooperation, coordination, coronation, corporation, corroboration, creation, cremation, criminalization, crustacean, culmination, cultivation, dalmatian, damnation, decaffeination, decapitation, deceleration, decentralization, decertification, declaration, decontamination, decoration, decriminalization, dedication, defamation, deforestation, deformation, degeneration, degradation, dehumanization, dehydration, deification, deinstitutionalization, delegation, deliberation, delineation, demarcation, demilitarization, demobilization, democratization, demonization, demonstration, demoralization, denationalization, denomination, denuclearization, denunciation, deportation, depravation, depreciation, depredation, deprivation, derivation, desalination, desalinization, desecration, desegregation, desiccation, designation, desperation, destabilization, destination, determination, detonation, detoxication, detoxification, devaluation, devastation, deviation, dictation, differentiation, dilatation, discoloration, discontinuation, discrimination, disembarkation, disinclination, disinformation, disintegration, dislocation, disorganization, disorientation, dispensation, disputation, disqualification, dissemination, dissertation, dissipation, dissociation, diversification, divination, documentation, domestication, domination, donation, dramatization, duplication, duration, echolocation, edification, education, elaboration, electrification, elevation, elimination, elongation, emanation, emancipation, embarkation, emigration, enumeration, equalization, equitation, equivocation, eradication, estimation, evacuation, evaluation, evaporation, evocation, exacerbation, exaggeration, examination, exasperation, excavation, excitation, exclamation, excommunication, exfoliation, exhilaration, exhortation, exhumation, exoneration, expatriation, expectation, experimentation, expiration, explanation, explication, exploitation, exploration, expropriation, extermination, fabrication, fixation, flirtation, flotation, fluctuation, fluoridation, foliation, formation, fortification, foundation, fragmentation, frustration, fumigation, gasification, generalization, generation, gentrification, germination, gestation, glaciation, globalization, glorification, gradation, graduation, gratification, gravitation, gyration, habitation, hallucination, harmonization, hesitation, hibernation, hospitalization, humiliation, hybridization, hydration, hydrogenation, identification, illumination, illustration, imagination, imitation, immigration, immunization, impersonation, implantation, implementation, implication, importation, impregnation, improvisation, imputation, inactivation, inauguration, incantation, incapacitation, incarceration, incarnation, inclination, incoordination, incorporation, incrimination, incrustation, incubation, indemnification, indentation, indexation, indication, indignation, indoctrination, industrialization, infatuation, infestation, infiltration, inflammation, information, inhabitation, initiation, innovation, insemination, insinuation, inspiration, instigation, institutionalization, instrumentation, insubordination, integration, intensification, internationalization, interpretation, interrogation, intimation, intimidation, intonation, intoxication, inundation, invalidation, investigation, invitation, invocation, ionization, irradiation, irrigation, irritation, justification, laceration, lactation, legalization, levitation, liberalization, liberation, libration, ligation, limitation, liquidation, litigation, localization, location, lubrication, machination, magnetization, magnification, malformation, manifestation, marginalization, masturbation, maturation, maximization, mechanization, mediation, medication, meditation, menstruation, migration, mineralization, miniaturization, ministration, misallocation, misapplication, misappropriation, mischaracterization, miscommunication, miscreation, misidentification, misinformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, mitigation, mobilization, moderation, modernization, modification, molestation, monopolization, motivation, multiplication, mummification, mutation, narration, nation, nationalization, naturalization, navigation, negation, negotiation, neutralization, nitration, nomination, nondiscrimination, nonproliferation, normalization, notation, notification, nucleation, nullification, obfuscation, obligation, observation, occupation, operation, optimization, oration, orchestration, ordination, organisation, organization, orientation, origination, ornamentation, ossification, ostentation, ovation, overvaluation, oxidation, pacification, pagination, palpitation, participation, pasteurization, penetration, perforation, permutation, perpetuation, personalization, personification, perspiration, perturbation, pigmentation, plantation, polarization, politicization, pollination, pontification, popularization, precipitation, predestination, prefabrication, premeditation, preoccupation, preparation, presentation, preservation, pressurization, privation, privatization, probation, proclamation, procrastination, procreation, profanation, prognostication, proliferation, pronunciation, propagation, proration, prostration, protestation, provocation, publication, punctuation, purification, qualification, quantification, quotation, radiation, radicalization, ramification, ratification, rationalization, reaffirmation, realization, reallocation, reauthorization, recantation, recapitalization, recertification, recitation, reclamation, reclassification, recommendation, reconciliation, reconfiguration, reconfirmation, reconsideration, recreation, recrimination, rectification, recuperation, redecoration, rededication, reevaluation, reexamination, reforestation, reformation, refrigeration, refutation, regeneration, regimentation, registration, rehabilitation, rehydration, reincarnation, reincorporation, reinterpretation, reinvigoration, reiteration, rejuvenation, relaxation, relocation, remediation, remuneration, renationalization, renegotiation, renomination, renovation, renunciation, reorganization, reparation, repatriation, replication, representation, repudiation, reputation, reservation, resignation, respiration, restoration, resuscitation, retaliation, retardation, reunification, revaluation, reverberation, revitalization, revocation, rotation, rumination, salvation, sanctification, sanitation, saponification, saturation, securitization, sedation, sedimentation, segmentation, segregation, sensation, separation, sequestration, simplification, situation, socialization, solicitation, sophistication, specialization, specification, stabilization, stagnation, standardization, starvation, station, sterilization, subluxation, subordination, subsidization, substantiation, suburbanization, suffocation, summation, superstation, syndication, taxation, telecommunication, temptation, termination, toleration, transformation, transillumination, transplantation, transportation, trepidation, undervaluation, unification, unionization, urbanization, usurpation, utilization, vacation, vaccination, validation, valuation, vaporization, variation, vegetation, verification, vibration, victimization, vilification, vindication, visitation, visualization, vocation, vulgarization, westernization. |
| 3 | -sh u n | faction, fashion, fiction, fission, absolution, absorption, abstraction, academician, accession, abduction, abolition, abortion, accretion, acquisition, action, addiction, addition, admission, admonition, adoption, advection, affection, affliction, aggression, alliteration, alternation, ambition, ammunition, antiabortion, anticorruption, apparition, apportion, apprehension, ascension, ashen, assertion, assumption, attention, attraction, attribution, attrition, auction, audition, beautician, benediction, brutalization, caption, carburetion, caution, circulation, circumspection, clinician, coalition, coercion, cognition, collection, commission, commotion, compassion, competition, completion, complexion, composition, comprehension, compression, compulsion, compunction, conception, conceptualization, concession, concoction, concussion, condescension, condition, conduction, confection, confession, conjunction, connection, conniption, conscription, constitution, constriction, construction, consumption, contention, contortion, contraception, contraction, contradiction, contraption, contribution, contrition, convection, convention, conviction, convolution, convulsion, correction, corruption, counterrevolution, crucifixion, cushion, deception, decimation, decommission, decomposition, decompression, deconstruction, deduction, defection, definition, deletion, demolition, demotion, dentition, depiction, depletion, deposition, depression, dereliction, description, desertion, destitution, destruction, detection, detention, deterioration, devolution, devotion, diction, dietitian, diffraction, digression, dilution, dimension, diminution, direction, disaffection, disconnection, discretion, discussion, disinfection, disposition, disruption, dissatisfaction, dissection, dissension, dissolution, distinction, distortion, distraction, distribution, dysfunction, edition, egyptian, ejection, election, electrician, electrocution, elocution, emission, emotion, emulsion, encryption, erection, erudition, eruption, eviction, evolution, exaction, exception, excoriation, excretion, execution, exemption, exertion, exhibition, expansion, expedition, exposition, expression, expulsion, extension, extinction, extortion, extraction, extradition, flexion, formalization, fraction, freshen, friction, fruition, function, gentian, geriatrician, gumption, hessian, homogenization, hypertension, hypotension, ignition, impassion, imperfection, imposition, impression, inaction, inception, incineration, indiscretion, induction, infarction, infection, inflection, infliction, infraction, inhibition, injection, injunction, inquisition, inscription, insertion, inspection, institution, instruction, insurrection, interaction, interception, intercession, interconnection, interdiction, interjection, intermission, interruption, intersection, introduction, introspection, intuition, invention, junction, jurisdiction, juxtaposition, lilliputian, liposuction, liquefaction, locomotion, logician, lotion, magician, malfunction, malnutrition, mansion, martian, mathematician, mention, midsection, misapprehension, misconception, misimpression, misperception, mission, mortician, motion, munition, musician, nonaggression, nonfiction, nonprescription, notion, nutrition, objection, obsession, obstetrician, obstruction, ocean, omission, opposition, oppression, optician, option, overconsumption, overexpansion, overproduction, overprotection, overreaction, oversimplification, partition, passion, patrician, pediatrician, pension, perception, percussion, perfection, permission, persecution, petition, physician, politician, pollution, portion, position, possession, potion, precaution, precession, preconception, precondition, prediction, predilection, predisposition, preelection, preemption, preignition, premonition, prescription, presumption, presupposition, pretension, prevention, procession, production, profession, progression, prohibition, projection, promotion, proportion, proposition, propulsion, proscription, prosecution, prostitution, protection, ration, reaction, reassertion, reception, recession, recognition, recollection, recondition, reconstruction, redefinition, redemption, redirection, redistribution, reduction, reeducation, reelection, reflection, regression, reimposition, reinspection, reintegration, reintroduction, reinvention, rejection, remission, rendition, repercussion, repetition, reposition, repossession, repression, reproduction, requisition, resolution, restitution, restriction, resumption, resurrection, retention, retraction, retransmission, retribution, revolution, revulsion, rhetorician, sanction, satisfaction, secession, secretion, section, sedition, seduction, selection, session, solution, statistician, submission, subscription, subsection, substation, substitution, subtraction, succession, suction, superstition, supposition, suppression, suspension, suspicion, syncopation, tactician, technician, tension, theoretician, titian, traction, tradition, transaction, transcription, transection, transgression, transition, transmission, tuition, venetian, volition, workstation. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-i-l-m-n-o-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: tuitional. | |
-2 letters: militant, minutial, multiton, mutation, titanium. | |
-3 letters: intimal, manitou, minutia, mulatto, nautili, outlain, tinamou, tuition. | |
-4 letters: alumin, alumni, amount, intima, intuit, ionium, latino, lattin, limina, lumina, maloti, manito, manitu, mattin, moulin, mutant, mutton, oilman, outman, talion, titian, titman, ultima, ultimo. | |
-5 letters: aioli, aloin, amino, amnio, animi, atilt, ilium, imino, liman, limit, linum, litai, matin. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-i-l-m-n-o-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: multination, mutilations, stimulation. | |
+2 letters: malnutrition, stimulations. | |
+3 letters: malnutritions, matriculation, multinational, mutualization, restimulation. | |
+4 letters: matriculations, misutilization, multinationals, multiplication, multipotential, mutualizations, restimulations. | |
+5 letters: intermodulation, maldistribution, misutilizations, monumentalities, multifunctional, multiplications, outmanipulating, overstimulating, overstimulation, poststimulation. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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