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trucidate

trucidate verb: to slaughter, massacre, kill.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete, rare) To slaughter, massacre, kill.
    • even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.1815, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan
    • 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?”1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, page 15

Forms of trucidate

third-person singular presenttrucidates
present participletrucidating
past participletrucidated
pasttrucidated

Origin of trucidate

Borrowed from Latin trucīdāre.

Questions about trucidate

What does trucidate mean?
Trucidate means to slaughter, massacre, kill.
What part of speech is trucidate?
Trucidate is a verb.
What is the past tense of trucidate?
The past tense of trucidate is trucidated.

Words near trucidate in the dictionary

  1. trucial
  2. Trucial Coast
  3. Trucial Oman
  4. Trucial State
  5. Trucial States
  6. trucidate
  7. trucidated
  8. trucidates
  9. trucidating
  10. trucidation
  11. trucidations

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