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Battue

noun
1.
A hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter.
2.
Indiscriminate slaughter.  Synonyms: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed.  "Ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name" , "The valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder" , "A huge prison battue was ordered"






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Words linked to "Battue" :   slaughter, mass murder, hunting, carnage, hunt, butchery, massacre



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