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MUTILATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of damaging the appearance or surface of something
Example:
he objected to the dam's massive disfigurement of the landscape
Synonyms:
defacement; disfiguration; disfigurement; mutilation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("mutilation" is a kind of...):
damage; harm; hurt; scathe (the act of damaging something or someone)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part
Classified under:
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)
