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trucidation

trucidation noun: the act of killing; slaughter or massacre.

Noun

trucidation (countable and uncountable, plural trucidations)

  1. (rare) The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.
    • I loathe the snails, but from loathing to actual butchery, trucidation of multitudes, there is still a step that I hesitate to take.1883 May 8, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson, quoted in, “Letters Vol. II”, in The Biographical Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson
    • Gillet: They hate me as much as I hate them. And that's saying a good deal. Girdlestone may deal with Walker's … trucidations of a dead and revered language. I shall begin to live!1938, James Bridie, Babes in the Woods

Forms of trucidation

pluraltrucidations

Origin of trucidation

From Latin trucidatio.

Questions about trucidation

What does trucidation mean?
Trucidation means the act of killing; slaughter or massacre.
What part of speech is trucidation?
Trucidation is a noun.
What is the plural of trucidation?
The plural of trucidation is trucidations.

Words near trucidation in the dictionary

  1. Trucial States
  2. trucidate
  3. trucidated
  4. trucidates
  5. trucidating
  6. trucidation
  7. trucidations
  8. trucing
  9. truck
  10. truck and trailer
  11. truck bay

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