Meaning of INTERNECINE
| Pronunciation: | | `intur'neeseen
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- [adj] characterized by bloodshed and carnage for both sides; "internecine war"
- [adj] (of conflict) within a group or organization; "an internecine feud among proxy holders"
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INTERNECINE is a 11 letter word that starts with I. |
| | Synonyms: | | bloody, internal, mutually ruinous |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`ter*ne"cine\, a. [L. internecinus deadly,
murderous, fr. internecare to kill, to slaughter; inter
between + necare to kill; akin to Gr. ? dead. See
{Necromancy}.]
Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually
destructive.
Internecine quarrels, horrible tumults, stain the
streets with blood. --Motley.
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| | Related Terms: | | baneful, brutal, calamitous, cataclysmal, cataclysmic, catastrophic, consuming, consumptive, deadly, death-bringing, deathful, deathly, demolishing, demolitionary, depredatory, desolating, destroying, destructive, devastating, disastrous, doomful, fatal, fateful, feral, fratricidal, killing, lethal, malign, malignant, mortal, nihilist, nihilistic, pernicious, ravaging, ruining, ruinous, savage, self-destructive, subversionary, subversive, suicidal, vandalic, vandalish, vandalistic, virulent, wasteful, wasting, withering |
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