Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

trucidation

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tru-ci-da-tion
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"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."

Etymology

From Latin trucidatio.

Origin

Source language: Latin

Word Breakdown

Root: trucidatio

Usage

Inflected Forms

trucidations (plural)

Questions

What does trucidation mean?: The act of killing; slaughter or massacre.
Where does trucidation come from?: It is traced to Latin.

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