verminken

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-.

• IPA^(key): /ˌvɛrˈmɪŋ.kə(n)/, /vərˈmɪŋ.kə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ver‧min‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɪŋkən

verminken

1. (transitive) to mutilate, to maim

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• Afrikaans: vermink