trucidate

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verb

To slaughter, massacre, kill.

OriginLatin trucido →
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Meanings

verbtrucidate (third-person singular simple present trucidates, present participle trucidating, simple past and past participle trucidated)

present singular third person trucidates · participle present trucidating · participle past trucidated · past trucidated

  1. obsoleterareTo slaughter, massacre, kill.

    even Marat and Robespierre considered themselves as denouncing, and trucidating only the enemies of the republic.

    1815, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, Modern Chivalry: Containing the Adventures of a Captain and Teague O'Regan
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    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?”

    1938, James Bridie, The Last Trump, page 15

Origin

  1. Latintrucido
  2. Latintrucido
  3. Englishtrucidate

Borrowed from Latin trucīdāre.

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APA

trucidate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trucidate

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“trucidate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trucidate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trucidate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trucidate.

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