Meaning of trucidation | Babel Free

Definitions

The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.

countable, rare, uncountable

Examples

“I loathe the snails, but from loathing to actual butchery, trucidation of multitudes, there is still a step that I hesitate to take.”

“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!”

“Labour, which had started the disasters of Cyprus by denying it any decolonisation after 1945, had now completed them, abandoning it to trucidation.”

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