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US
/ˌmjutəˈɫeɪʃən/
]
[ UK /mjˌuːtɪlˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /mjˌuːtɪlˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
the defacement of an Italian mosaic during the Turkish invasion
he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape - an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
How To Use mutilation In A Sentence
- However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace.
- There are also scenes of prisoners attacking guards, shanking each other, and discussing their murders, assaults, and mutilations in graphic terms.
- Moreover, when she eventually stops seeking these abusive men she substitutes their external abuses for a violent form of self-loathing that eventually becomes self-mutilation.
- Because many books were robbed of steel engravings to put into Granger's history, such mutilation came to be known as grangerizing.
- Constitution, like Topsy, was not made but "growed," and that which grows is never logically perfect; it is like an old tree, strangely gnarled, with countless abrasions and mutilations, and sometimes even curious grafts. Without Prejudice
- Henry disafforested land that King John and Henry II had afforested. The Charter of the Forest in 1217 relaxed Forest Laws - there was no more death and mutilation for Forest offences.
- However, the line separating circumcision and castration is at times hard to discern in these texts because the mutilation, whether partial or complete, seems to instantiate a form of subjectivity that for all attempts at containment continues to inhere in the narratives and haunts even the most triumphant accounts of victory over Tipu in the early Projection, Patriotism, Surrogation: Handel in Calcutta
- Their reasoning is that some local societies follow practices that violate human rights, such as female genital mutilation and other violations of the right against gender discrimination.
- One might characterize this as the microcosmically ideal Ballard fantasy, in that it partakes of the surreal — the “Gulliver” being represented as a huge flesh statue based on the work of Praxiteles — as well as of the Freudian: “as if the mutilation of this motionless colossus had released a sudden flood of repressed spite.” The Catastrophist
- The play balances characters that vehemently oppose mutilation with vigorous proponents of a practice that they see as enhancing their culture.