trucidate

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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^[1]:
  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?”