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BATTUE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indiscriminate slaughter
Example:
a huge prison battue was ordered
Synonyms:
battue; bloodbath; bloodletting; bloodshed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("battue" is a kind of...):
butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("battue" is a kind of...):
hunt; hunting (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)
