degollación

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Spanish

Pronunciation

 
  • IPA(key): (most of Spain) /deɡoʝaˈθjon/
  • IPA(key): (rural northern Spain) /deɡoʎaˈθjon/
 
  • IPA(key): (most of Latin America) /deɡoʝaˈsjon/
  • IPA(key): (Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines) /deɡoʎaˈsjon/
  • IPA(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /deɡoʃaˈsjon/
  • IPA(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /deɡoʒaˈsjon/

  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: de‧go‧lla‧ción

Noun

degollación f (plural degollaciones)

  1. beheading
    • 2015 November 22, “Columna”, in El País‎:
      De la misma forma que una degollación ritual ante las cámaras tiene una fuerza simbólica superior a cualquier bombardeo, también el suicida con un chaleco de dinamita desafía al misil más inteligente.
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  2. massacre, slaughter

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