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mutilization

mutilization is the misconstruction of mutilation.

Meaning of mutilation

Noun

mutilation (countable and uncountable, plural mutilations)

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

Forms of mutilization

pluralmutilizations

Origin of mutilization

From mutilate + -ization. Perhaps influenced by brutalization and utilization.

Questions about mutilization

What is mutilization the misconstruction of?
Mutilization is the misconstruction of mutilation.

Words near mutilization in the dictionary

  1. mutilid
  2. mutilids
  3. mutilin
  4. mutilins
  5. mutility
  6. mutilization
  7. mutilizations
  8. mutillid
  9. mutillids
  10. mutilous
  11. Mutimir

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mutilization (page history and authors); mutilation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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