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mu·ti·la·tion

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. mutilationnoun

    an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part

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  1. mutilationnoun

    Synonyms:
    disfigurement

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  1. mutilationnoun

    Synonyms:
    maim, dismemberment, mangling

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  1. List of paraphrases for "mutilation":

    maiming, dismemberment, female, genital, amputation, fgm, distortion, mayhem

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#1236female
#10309distortion
#16293genital
#16672mayhem
#38163fgm
#39019mutilation
#43169amputation
#60146dismemberment
#122321maiming

How to use mutilation in a sentence?

  1. Ken Paxton:

    It is shocking and sad that Joe Biden would champion cruel forms of child abuse such as genital mutilation through forced so-called sex-change operations and the prescription of dangerous puberty blockers, i will always defend the children of Texas from these inhumane procedures.

  2. Amnesty International:

    Soldiers and militias subjected Tigrayan women and girls to rape, gang rape, sexual slavery, sexual mutilation and other forms of torture, often using ethnic slurs and death threats, given the context, scale, and gravity of the sexual violence committed against women and girls in Ethiopias Tigray, the violations amount to war crimes and may amount to crimes against humanity.

  3. Rao Gupta:

    Determining the magnitude of female genital mutilation is essential to eliminating the practice, when governments collect and publish national statistics on FGM they are better placed to understand the extent of the issue and accelerate efforts to protect the rights of millions of girls and women.

  4. Pope Francis on Saturday:

    The many forms of slavery, the commercialization, and mutilation of the bodies of women, call out to us to be committed to defeat these types of degradation that reduce them to mere objects that are bought and sold ....

  5. Eric Schmidt:

    I don’t see how anyone who believes in the rule of law and the rights of women could do anything other than support efforts to end female-genital mutilation, forced marriage and honor-killings -- practices that have no place in the 21st century.


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