verminken

== Dutch == === Etymology === 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-. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /vərˈmɪŋ.kə(n)/ Hyphenation: ver‧min‧ken Rhymes: -ɪŋkən === Verb === verminken (transitive) to mutilate, to maim Synonym: mutileren ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== verminking ==== Descendants ==== Afrikaans: vermink