mutilation

Noun

Meaning

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disfigurement defacement disfiguration gore gash loss butchery decimation damage break destruction injury cutting harm wound
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Antonyms

development building growth gain solid progress
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Hypernyms

damage injury harm hurt scathe accidental injury

Hyponyms

dismemberment

Phrases with the word

feline psychogenic self-mutilation hyperesthesia self-mutilation syndrome hyperesthetic self-mutilation syndrome neuropathic self-mutilation syndrome female genital mutilation cutting female genitals mutilation

Anagrams

ultimation

Examples

I had grown up in a humanist atmosphere, and war to me was never anything but horror, mutilation and senseless destruction, and I knew that many great and wise people felt the same way about it. George Grosz

[C]ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society. Ashley Montagu

I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation. Jack Nicholson

There seems to be this sense among even well-meaning Americans that Africa is this black hole of murder and mutilation that can never be fixed, no matter what aid is brought in. Nicholas D. Kristof

The purely selfish happiness of certain Epicureans is a chimera, an abstraction, an impossibility; the true human pleasures are all more or less social. Pure egoism, rather than being an affirmation of the self, is a mutilation of the self. Jean-Marie Guyau

Of the genital mutilation community the same can be said. Christopher Hitchens

Close letter words and terms

mutilated people mutilatee mutilater mutilative mutilator mutilatory