battue English

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battue

— noun a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter

— noun (= bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed) indiscriminate slaughter a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered 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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bloodshed

bloodletting

bloodbath

beating up

wholesale slaughter

slaughter

pursuit

massacre

hunt

communal hunt

chase

carnage

butchery

beat

baiting