battue

1. 1.

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

   Broaderhunt
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymsbloodbathbloodlettingbloodshed

   Broaderslaughter

Other forms of battue

plural

battues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about battue

What does battue mean?

battue means "a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in battue?

battue has 2 syllables: bat-tue. The stress falls on "bat".

What is another word for battue?

Close synonyms include bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is battue a common word?

battue is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.