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MUTILATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mutilation mean?
• MUTILATION (noun)
The noun MUTILATION has 2 senses:
1. an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
2. the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Familiarity information: MUTILATION used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("mutilation" is a kind of...):
accidental injury; injury (an accident that results in physical damage or hurt)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mutilation"):
dismemberment; taking apart (the removal of limbs; being cut to pieces)
Derivation:
mutilate; mutilate (destroy or injure severely)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement; mutilation
Context example:
he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
Hypernyms ("mutilation" is a kind of...):
damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)
Context examples
As he heard the voice his face brightened, through its mutilation, and he said:—That is Dr. Van Helsing.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It affects males and is characterized by neurologic defects, moderate mental retardation, muscle hypotonia, and a tendency for self-mutilation (self-biting of lips, tongue, and fingertips).
(Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)
Not for the wide world will I consent to any mutilation of her dead body.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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