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circumcise

[ sur-kuhm-sahyz ]

verb (used with object)

circumcised, circumcising.
  1. to remove the prepuce of (a male), especially as a religious rite.
  2. to remove the clitoris, prepuce, or labia of (a female).
  3. to purify spiritually.


circumcise

/ 藞蝉蓽藧办蓹尘藢蝉补瑟锄 /

verb

  1. to remove the foreskin of (a male)
  2. to incise surgically the skin over the clitoris of (a female)
  3. to remove the clitoris of (a female)
  4. to perform the religious rite of circumcision on (someone)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞肠颈谤肠耻尘藢肠颈蝉别谤, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 肠颈谤顎僣耻尘路肠颈蝉顎卐谤 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of circumcise1

1200鈥50; Middle English circumcisen < Latin 肠颈谤肠耻尘肠墨蝉耻蝉 (past participle of 肠颈谤肠耻尘肠墨诲别谤别 to cut around), equivalent to circum- circum- + -肠墨蝉耻蝉 ( -肠墨诲- cut + -tus past participle suffix; -cide )
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of circumcise1

C13: from Latin 肠颈谤肠耻尘肠墨诲别谤别, from circum- + caedere to cut
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Example Sentences

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She鈥檚 opposed, for example, to having their son circumcised.

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This was when piracy was at its peak and she had just given birth to a son, whom they wanted to circumcise.

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Somalia tops the list of countries where the practice, also known as female circumcision, is prevalent, with 99% of the female population between the ages of 15 and 49 having been circumcised.

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Last year, a heavily pregnant congregant, knowing she would give birth to a boy, asked that he be circumcised 鈥 and that the bris be held on the eighth day of his life, as tradition demands.

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Finally, your mother has to kill two or three goats to make a leather coat for you, because for a month before you鈥檙e circumcised, you have to wear leather.

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