trucidate

English

Etymology

From Latin trucīdāre.

Verb

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

1. (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?”

Related terms

• trucidation

Anagrams

• dictature, urticated

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

trucidate

1. inflection of trucidare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

trucidate f pl

1. feminine plural of trucidato

Anagrams

• decurtati

Latin

Verb

trucīdāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of trucīdō

Spanish

Verb

trucidate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of trucidar combined with te