mutilation
nounEtymology Latin mutilatio; compare French mutilation.
1
The act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated.
- The cruel practice of female genital mutilation is banned in many countries globally, but it remains widespread among the Bohras - a small Muslim community in India. Now, some Bohra women have started a campaign demanding an end to the ritual, writes the BBC's Geeta Pandey in Delhi.2015 December 23, “Indian women who are fighting to stop genital mutilation”, in BBC:
- Derived terms
- genital mutilation, self-mutilation
- Related terms
- body modification