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mutilation

noun as in emasculation

Strong match

Weak match

noun as in tear

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The young woman says she is still suffering from psychological damage as a result of the mutilation.

Genital mutilation is practiced in various forms across the African continent, from Nigeria to Somalia.

Click on Surfer Rosa or Doolittle or the Wave of Mutilation compilation.

Doctors said that the wounded director is deeply depressed about the mutilation.

Genital mutilation, for example, is not a just a medical problem but a legal problem.

A person convicted of bearing false testimony suffers a mutilation of his extremities.

After this mutilation of his command, he had been ordered to Murfreesborough to recruit and organize a new brigade.

Some of them had fought around him for thirty years, and the farewell was a mutilation of their very lives.

Great was the indignation of Rhode Island when the tidings of this arbitrary mutilation of her territory reached her.

This mutilation has had a serious effect upon the proportions of the building, and induces a feeling of want of balance.

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On this page you'll find 251 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to mutilation, such as: accident, blow, bruise, casualty, catastrophe, and contamination.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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