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单词 mutilation
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Definition of mutilation in English:

mutilation

noun ˌmjuːt(ɪ)ˈleɪʃnˌmjudlˈeɪʃ(ə)n
mass noun
  • 1The action of mutilating or being mutilated.

    a culture which found any mutilation of the body abhorrent
    count noun there were fatalities and appalling mutilations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cattle mutilations are logically explainable only as Extraterrestrial activities.
    • Other pressures facing children in detention are the ongoing exposure to trauma of parents and siblings, witnessing acts of violence between officers and detainees, self-harm, mutilation and attempted hangings.
    • The animal had clear signs of mutilation: it was missing an eye, its udders and its reproductive organs.
    • There are reports of rape, mutilation, and cannibalism.
    • Human-rights organizations have charged his forces with widespread rape, massacres in churches, mutilation, torture, cannibalism and forced conscription of child combatants.
    • They suffer social ostracism, economic deprivation, educational backwardness and they invariably fall prey to most serious forms of persecution in society - rape, killings, mutilation, arson, destruction of property.
    • When police checked his computer it contained information about kidnappings, murder and the mutilation of bodies.
    • It is amazing that readers, with little first-hand knowledge of the facts or of the police/military investigation, are quick to demand prison, mutilation or death to these individuals.
    • The exhibit consists of a laundry line from which hang works of art, poetry, personal reflections and bras replete with statistics about sexual abuse, eating disorders and genital mutilation.
    • The play balances characters that vehemently oppose mutilation with vigorous proponents of a practice that they see as enhancing their culture.
    • Under the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, and throughout the Middle Ages, criminals were punished by fines and, for serious crime, death or mutilation.
    • Whilst I was thus examining this new development, Joey sat motionless, as so often, totally mute, showing no emotion about the mutilation of his body as now revealed to me.
    • Nelson lost his eye and his arm in the course of his duties, accepting the risk of mutilation and death for what he believed was a higher purpose.
    • 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.
    • Mutilation was used throughout medieval and early-modern Europe to inscribe punishment publicly upon the body.
    • The military is, however, quite interested in all alien activities including cattle mutilations, and actively seeks to investigate them.
    • Now Anna feels like she is considered the resident expert on whippings, body mutilation, and pleasure through pain.
    • Scientists from a foreign power could be involved, performing the mutilations for analysis.
    • The images of suffering and mutilation, of limbless children and deformed young women, have been in the media for years, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
    • With an armed uprising by a united Iraqi opposition would there have been the killing and mutilation of thousands of people?
    Synonyms
    maiming, disfigurement, dismembering
    damage, vandalization, desecration
    1. 1.1 The infliction of serious damage on something.
      the proposed mutilation of City Hall by our own councillors
      Example sentencesExamples
      • However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace.
      • Likewise in the poem, the author conjures up the image of a "common motherland", and once again mourns the mutilation of rural Punjab.
      • The initial authors of a report may often object to the mutilation of their manuscript.
      • As this passage indicates, the white supremacist denial of black success effects a symbolic decapitation, or, more properly, psychological mutilation.
      • He was indignant about the mutilation of the cable and wanted to make a complaint about it right away.
      • Beware of agency mutilation of your footers.
      • A typical instance of mutilation of a notable literary work to serve commercial interest had come up in a judicial court recently over a TV serial.

Definition of mutilation in US English:

mutilation

nounˌmyo͞odlˈāSH(ə)nˌmjudlˈeɪʃ(ə)n
  • 1The action of mutilating or being mutilated.

    a culture which found any mutilation of the body abhorrent
    there were fatalities and appalling mutilations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When police checked his computer it contained information about kidnappings, murder and the mutilation of bodies.
    • 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.
    • It is amazing that readers, with little first-hand knowledge of the facts or of the police/military investigation, are quick to demand prison, mutilation or death to these individuals.
    • Cattle mutilations are logically explainable only as Extraterrestrial activities.
    • Mutilation was used throughout medieval and early-modern Europe to inscribe punishment publicly upon the body.
    • With an armed uprising by a united Iraqi opposition would there have been the killing and mutilation of thousands of people?
    • The military is, however, quite interested in all alien activities including cattle mutilations, and actively seeks to investigate them.
    • The images of suffering and mutilation, of limbless children and deformed young women, have been in the media for years, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.
    • Under the Anglo-Saxons and the Normans, and throughout the Middle Ages, criminals were punished by fines and, for serious crime, death or mutilation.
    • The play balances characters that vehemently oppose mutilation with vigorous proponents of a practice that they see as enhancing their culture.
    • Nelson lost his eye and his arm in the course of his duties, accepting the risk of mutilation and death for what he believed was a higher purpose.
    • They suffer social ostracism, economic deprivation, educational backwardness and they invariably fall prey to most serious forms of persecution in society - rape, killings, mutilation, arson, destruction of property.
    • Whilst I was thus examining this new development, Joey sat motionless, as so often, totally mute, showing no emotion about the mutilation of his body as now revealed to me.
    • There are reports of rape, mutilation, and cannibalism.
    • Other pressures facing children in detention are the ongoing exposure to trauma of parents and siblings, witnessing acts of violence between officers and detainees, self-harm, mutilation and attempted hangings.
    • Now Anna feels like she is considered the resident expert on whippings, body mutilation, and pleasure through pain.
    • Human-rights organizations have charged his forces with widespread rape, massacres in churches, mutilation, torture, cannibalism and forced conscription of child combatants.
    • The animal had clear signs of mutilation: it was missing an eye, its udders and its reproductive organs.
    • Scientists from a foreign power could be involved, performing the mutilations for analysis.
    • The exhibit consists of a laundry line from which hang works of art, poetry, personal reflections and bras replete with statistics about sexual abuse, eating disorders and genital mutilation.
    Synonyms
    maiming, disfigurement, dismembering
    1. 1.1 The infliction of serious damage on something.
      the mutilation of the English language
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As this passage indicates, the white supremacist denial of black success effects a symbolic decapitation, or, more properly, psychological mutilation.
      • A typical instance of mutilation of a notable literary work to serve commercial interest had come up in a judicial court recently over a TV serial.
      • He was indignant about the mutilation of the cable and wanted to make a complaint about it right away.
      • The initial authors of a report may often object to the mutilation of their manuscript.
      • Beware of agency mutilation of your footers.
      • Likewise in the poem, the author conjures up the image of a "common motherland", and once again mourns the mutilation of rural Punjab.
      • However, the mutilation of the monuments indicate that she had fallen from grace.
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