verminken

Signification (Anglais)

to mutilate, to maim

Concepts

mutiler

estropier

Synonymes

misvormen

twijnen

verwringen

afknotten

verkrommen

verhakkelen

mismaken

Traductions

mutilate

mutilar

mutilar

truncate

top

🔝

disfigure

maim

verstümmeln

verkrüppeln

شَوِهَ

deform

garble

hamstring

kneecap

cripple

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌvɛrˈmɪŋ.kə(n)/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Middle Dutch verminken, a dialectal variant of vermenken (“to injure permanently”), from ver- + menken (variant minken), from the root manc (“a limping or lame person”) (cf. Dutch mank), from Latin mancus (“maimed or defective”), from Proto-Indo-European *man-ko- (“maimed in the hand”), from *man-.