By some estimates, over 130 million women and girls have been subjected to female genital mutilation, particularly in African and Middle Eastern countries.
Source: tatoeba (9962342)
Mutilation
Synonyms for "mutilation" (138 found)
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22 translations across 17 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- осакатяване noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Catalan
1 entries- mutilació noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 殘割 /残割 noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
- 殘毀 /残毁 noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Dutch
1 entries- verminking noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Finnish
2 entries- pahoinpitely noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
- silpominen noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
French
1 entries- mutilation noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
German
1 entries- Verstümmelung noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Hungarian
1 entries- csonkítás noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Indonesian
1 entries- mutilasi noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Italian
1 entries- mutilazione noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Japanese
3 entries- 不具 noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
- 切断 noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
- 骨抜き noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Kazakh
1 entries- мертігу noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Portuguese
1 entries- mutilação noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Romanian
2 entries- csonkítás noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
- mutilare noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Russian
1 entries- уве́чье noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Spanish
1 entries- mutilación noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Swedish
1 entries- stympning noun (act of mutilating or the state of being mutilated)
Sample sentences
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Among the atrocities committed during the war were murder, rape and mutilation.
Source: tatoeba (10191390)
Most bans on gender-affirming care explicitly carve out exceptions for the only actual child genital mutilation going on, that against intersex babies.
Source: tatoeba (11675014)
The United Nations Children’s Fund seeks an end to female genital mutilation by two thousand ten.
Source: tatoeba (12391794)
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