BATTUE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does battue mean? 

• BATTUE (noun)
  The noun BATTUE has 2 senses:

1. a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter

2. indiscriminate slaughter

  Familiarity information: BATTUE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTUE (noun)

Sense 1

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Indiscriminate slaughter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

battue; bloodbath; bloodletting; bloodshed

Context example:

a huge prison battue was ordered

Hypernyms ("battue" is a kind of...):

butchery; carnage; mass murder; massacre; slaughter (the savage and excessive killing of many people)