BATTUE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)