2.HBHto cut off a woman’s clitoris (=part of her sex organs) 切除〔女性〕的阴蒂
Examples from the Corpus
circumcise• And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.• At boys' initiationceremonies, a Mukula log is put near the place where they are circumcised.• Every man child among you shall be circumcised.• Some of the boys were up to 13 years old and some of the women had been forcibly circumcised.• Will his foreskin loosen up or should I have him circumcised?• Robin's fatherremembered being circumcised after his father's death, when he was seven.• And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.• If this rateoperated annually then 5.6% of boys aged 17 would be circumcised - not substantially different from the Mersey figure.
Origincircumcise
(1200-1300)Latin past participle of circumcidere, from circum- (CIRCUM-) + caedere“to cut”