1. To deprive of a limb or an essential part; cripple. this definition doesn't apply because circumcision doesn't deprive the body of a limb or "essential part." The foreskin is not essential, and indeed its removal provides benefits. 2. To disfigure by damaging irreparably: mutilate a statue. Disfigure implies a negative change, so no. 3. To make imperfect by excising or altering parts. Male circumcision does "alter a part," but in doing so does not make it imperfect. Some would even say it makes it more perfect.
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