mutilation

1. 1.

   an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part

   Broaderinjury

   Narrowerdismemberment
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsdefacementdisfigurementdisfiguration

   Broaderdamage

Other forms of mutilation

plural

mutilations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about mutilation

What does mutilation mean?

mutilation means "an injury that causes disfigurement or that deprives you of a limb or other important body part". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mutilation?

mutilation has 4 syllables: mu-ti-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌmjutəˈleɪʃən/.

What is another word for mutilation?

Close synonyms include defacement, disfigurement, disfiguration. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutilation a common word?

mutilation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with mutilation?

65 words rhyme with mutilation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.