trucidate
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English
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[edit]trucidate (third-person singular simple present trucidates, present participle trucidating, simple past and past participle trucidated)
- (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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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
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[edit]trucidate
- inflection of trucidare:
Etymology 2
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[edit]trucidate f pl
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[edit]trucīdāte
Spanish
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[edit]trucidate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of trucidar combined with te
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