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noyade

UK/nwaˈjaːd/US/nwɑˈjɑd/

noyade noun: a murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.

Noun

noyade (plural noyades)

  1. (historical) A murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
    • By degrees, daylight itself witnesses Noyades: women and men are tied together, feet and feet, hands and hands; and flung in: this they call Mariage Républicain, Republican Marriage.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
    • Alongside this, there were the infamous noyades: perhaps 2,000 alleged counter-revolutionaries strapped in to barges were towed into the river Loire where the barges were scuppered, leaving the victims to drown.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 486

Verb

noyade (third-person singular simple present noyades, present participle noyading, simple past and past participle noyaded)

  1. (historical, nonce-word, obsolete) To murder by drowning, especially during the French Reign of Terror.

noyade meaning in Urdu

noyade in Urdu

غرق آبی

Forms of noyade

Noun
pluralnoyades
Verb
third-person singular presentnoyades
present participlenoyading
past participlenoyaded
pastnoyaded

Origin of noyade

From French noyade.

Questions about noyade

What does noyade mean?
Noyade means a murder by drowning, especially one of those carried out during the French Reign of Terror.
What is noyade in Urdu?
Noyade in Urdu is غرق آبی. See Noyade meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is noyade?
Noyade can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce noyade?
Noyade is pronounced /nwaˈjaːd/ (UK).
What is the plural of noyade?
The plural of noyade is noyades.

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  10. Noyal-Pontivy
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Adapted from Wiktionary: noyade (page history and authors); noyade (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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