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English
Etymology
From Latin trucīdāre.
Verb
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: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?”
Anagrams
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
trucidate
- inflection of trucidare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
trucidate f pl
- feminine plural of trucidato
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
trucīdāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of trucīdō
Spanish
Verb
trucidate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of trucidar combined with te