mutilization

Misconstruction of mutilation.

Noun

  1. Misconstruction of mutilation.
    • in defiance of the severest penalties inflicted, amounting in some cases to mutilization and death - 1837, Michael Ryan, The London Medical and Surgical Journal:
    • We learn from the Bible in olden times that a great deal of mutilization was practised, but only on males - 1903, Ontario Dental Association, Dominion Dental Journal:
    • The patient was thoroughly uncomfortable and suffered from a deoxidized condition of the blood incident to the mutilization of the pharynx and trachea. - 1920, Association of Military Surgeons of the United States,...

Origin

From mutilate + -ization. Perhaps influenced by brutalization and utilization.

Forms

mutilizations