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trucidate

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin trucīdāre.

Verb

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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[1]:
      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?”
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Italian

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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trucidate

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

Etymology 2

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Participle

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trucidate f pl

  1. feminine plural of trucidato

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Latin

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Verb

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trucīdāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of trucīdō

Spanish

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Verb

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trucidate

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