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mutilation

mutilation

noun mew-tee-lah-SYOHN Rare

Usage Note

mutilation is used in legal, medical, and human-rights contexts to describe deliberate bodily harm. The related verb is mutiler and the agent noun mutilateur. It is invariably formal and never used loosely in casual speech.

Examples

"La loi condamne toute mutilation volontaire."

Natural Translation

The law condemns all deliberate mutilation.

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