trucidate

English

Etymology

From Latin trucīdāre.

Verb

trucidate (third-person singular simple present trucidates, present participle trucidating, simple past and past participle trucidated)

  1. (obsolete, rare) To slaughter, massacre, kill.
    • 1815, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan:
      even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.
    • 1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, page 15:
      Butt. You sit at the table and shovel down course after course of condimented, trucidated trash; and there's your poor tortured stomach, on bended knee at the foot of your œsophagus, lifting up its hands to Heaven and crying, “My God, what next?

Anagrams

Italian

Verb

trucidate

  1. inflection of trucidare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Participle

trucidate f pl

  1. feminine plural of trucidato

Anagrams

Latin

Verb

trucīdāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of trucīdō

Spanish

Verb

trucidate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of trucidar combined with te
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