Circumcise is an English word with synonyms like cut or remove. Below you'll find 9 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Circumcise meaning
- To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of.
- To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia.
- To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.
Using Circumcise
- The main meaning on this page is: To surgically remove the foreskin (prepuce) from the penis of. | To surgically remove the clitoris (clitoridectomy), clitoral hood, or labia. | To trim off the portion of the barrel liner of a large-caliber naval gun that protrudes from the end of the barrel as a result of the liner slowly stretching from prolonged fire.
- Useful related words include: cut, remove, take, take away.
- In the example corpus, circumcise often appears in combinations such as: to circumcise, circumcise their.
Context around Circumcise
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 6 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 9 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Circumcise
- In this selection, "circumcise" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, children and myself stand out and add context to how "circumcise" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include jews to circumcise their own and abraham to circumcise all male. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "circumcise" sits close to words such as aakash, aanholt and aardwolf, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with circumcise
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Antoninus Pius permitted Jews to circumcise their own sons. (9 words)
They were forbidden to own Christian slaves or to circumcise their slaves. (12 words)
Historia Augusta, Hadrian 14.2, where the Caesar forbade Jews to circumcise their infants. (14 words)
She stressed that the involvement of the head of every house and in the stoppage of the scourge became imperative due to the fact that no woman would circumcise her child without the consent of the father. (37 words)
In a case of sexual assault in Queensland, Australia (1997), a district court awarded a man damages for nervous shock after a botched attempt to circumcise him with a broken beer bottle in a drunken attack. (36 words)
Namely, Hadrian's legislation on castration was amended by Antoninus Pius in order to allow Jews to circumcise their own sons (Jewish proselytism among male converts remaining forbidden). (28 words)
Example sentences (9)
In Genesis 17: 9-13, God asked Abraham to circumcise all male children in his house.
She stressed that the involvement of the head of every house and in the stoppage of the scourge became imperative due to the fact that no woman would circumcise her child without the consent of the father.
Antoninus Pius permitted Jews to circumcise their own sons.
As with every country, doctors who circumcise children must take care that all applicable rules regarding informed consent and safety are satisfied.
Historia Augusta, Hadrian 14.2, where the Caesar forbade Jews to circumcise their infants.
In a case of sexual assault in Queensland, Australia (1997), a district court awarded a man damages for nervous shock after a botched attempt to circumcise him with a broken beer bottle in a drunken attack.
Namely, Hadrian's legislation on castration was amended by Antoninus Pius in order to allow Jews to circumcise their own sons (Jewish proselytism among male converts remaining forbidden).
The movement came to be known in Meru as Ngaitana ("I will circumcise myself"), because to avoid naming their friends the girls said they had cut themselves.
They were forbidden to own Christian slaves or to circumcise their slaves.
Common combinations with circumcise
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to circumcise 6×
- circumcise their 4×