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| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : hek-uh-tohm, -toom |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛk əˌtoʊm, -ˌtum |
Definition of hecatomb
Origin :- 1590s, from Greek hekatombe "offering of 100 oxen," but generally "a great public sacrifice," from hekaton "one hundred" (perhaps from hen, neuter of eis "one" + *katon "hundred") + bous "ox." The first month of the Attic calendar (corresponding to July-August) was Hekatombaion, in which sacrifices were made.
- As in carnage : noun massacre
- As in immolation : noun sacrifice
- He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god.
- Extract from : « The Iliad » by Homer
- The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses.
- Extract from : « The Death Shot » by Mayne Reid
- They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it.
- Extract from : « The Lone Ranche » by Captain Mayne Reid
- Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it.
- Extract from : « Wives and Daughters » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love.
- Extract from : « The Spanish Brothers » by Deborah Alcock
- Yearly will Charless Bath claim its hecatomb; I know not why.
- Extract from : « My Experiences in a Lunatic Asylum » by Herman Charles Merivale
- Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family.
- Extract from : « The Eustace Diamonds » by Anthony Trollope
- Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins.
- Extract from : « The Bandolero » by Mayne Reid
- I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her.
- Extract from : « Let us follow Him » by Henryk Sienkiewicz
Synonyms for hecatomb
- annihilation
- atonement
- blitz
- blood
- blood and guts
- blood bath
- bloodshed
- butchering
- butchery
- crime
- deduction
- discount
- extermination
- gore
- havoc
- hecatomb
- holocaust
- homicide
- killing
- libation
- liquidation
- manslaughter
- mass murder
- murder
- oblation
- offering
- offing
- penance
- rapine
- reduction
- reparation
- sacrificial lamb
- search and destroy
- shambles
- slaughter
- slaying
- taking out
- victim
- warfare
- wasting
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