Battue

Definitions: Battue

Battue

Noun

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

2. Indiscriminate slaughter.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "battue" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)

Etymology: Battue \Bat"tue`\, noun. [French expression battue, from battre to beat. See Batter, transitive verb, and compare to Battuta.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Battue

Attack

Battue, razzia, Jacquerie, dragonnade; devastation; eboulement.

Killing

Noun: killing. Verb: homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion; effusion of blood; blood, blood shed; gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery; battue.

Pursuit

Chase, hunt, battue, race, steeple chase, hunting, coursing; venation, venery; fox chase; sport, sporting; shooting, angling, fishing, hawking; shikar.

Crosswords: Battue

French (beaten).

Books

• 20 h 07 [i.e. Vingt heures zéro sept], 19 mars 1978, flash ... législatives, la gauche battue (reference)

• Battue (reference)

• Les minuits de la terre battue (reference)

• Pygmées? : peintures sur écorce battue des Mbuti (Haut-Za�re) (reference)

• Terre battue (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Albanian

vrasje (despatch, dispatch, homicide, kill, killing, murder, sleep), gjah (catch, chase, chivy, coursing, game, Hunt, hunting, prey, shooting, sport). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قتل من غير تمييز للعزل, ‏إثارة الطرائد من مكامنها. (various references)

Bulgarian 

хайка (pack, posse), избиване (massacre). (various references)

German

Treibjagd (beat, hunt), Kesseltreiben (hunt). (various references)

Hungarian

hajtóvadászat (chase, Hunt, manhunt). (various references)

Pig Latin

attuebay

Portuguese

batida (attack, beat, Bob, buffet, churn, hit, ictus, investigative, knock, rap, research, slam, slap, strike, stroke, to beat, to drive), caçada (chase, fleet, Hunt, huntress, safari, shoot). (various references)

Romanian

bãtaie (beat, beating, blow, box, bursting, close, concussion, cudgeling, cuff, cuffing, drubbing, dusting, fight, fighting, flogging, fray, lacing, licking, Pat, patter, pattering, percussion, pick, range, rattle, row, run, scramble, scrap, scuffle, set to, shot, slap, slapping, stroke, sweep, thrashing, throbbing, thud, thump, toll, tussle, warming), goanã (lick, race). (various references)

Russian 

облава на охоте, облава (dragnet, manhunt, round up). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

lov (chase, hunt, hunting, kill, shikar, shoot, shooting), hajka (chase, chevy, hue, hunt), gonjenje (prosecution, pursuance, pursuit). (various references)

Spanish

batida (beat, beating, crackdown, drive, raid), matanza (bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, kill, killing, kosher butchering, massacre, slaughter, slaughtering). (various references)

Swedish

drevjakt. (various references)

Turkish

soykırım (genocide, holocaust), sürgün avı (beat, blood sports, surround), sürek avı (drive), katliam (bloodletting, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, hecatomb, massacre, pogrom, slaughter). (various references)

Ukranian 

різня (massacre), розшук (quest), облава (round up, windlass). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự t� n sát sự khám xét, sự lùng sục (comb-out). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "battue": battues. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Battue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atue, badstube, Bartumeu, Bartunek, bateu, Batsuur, batte, Batteux, battu, battute, batu, Batum, Batut, Batuta, Bettauer, bittie, Boattie, bottae, Rattue. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: tubate.

-1 letter: battu, beaut, betta, butte, tubae.

-2 letters: abet, abut, bate, batt, beat, beau, beta, bute, butt, tabu, tate, taut, teat, tuba, tube.

-3 letters: ate, att, bat, bet, but, eat, eau, eta, tab, tae, tat, tau, tea, tet, tub, tut, uta.

-4 letters: ab, ae, at, ba, be, et, ta, ut.

+1 letter: abutted, abutter, batteau, battues.

+2 letters: abutment, abutters, baguette, batteaux, butylate, butyrate, cuttable, debutant, extubate, intubate, obturate, outbleat, rebuttal, substate, tabouret, tabulate, tubulate.

+3 letters: abruptest, abutments, attribute, baguettes, banquette, barquette, beatitude, butterfat, butylated, butylates, butyrates, debutante, debutants, extubated, extubates, habituate, intubated, intubates, obturated, obturates, outbleats, outdebate, rebuttals, substates, substrate, subtenant, tablature, tabourets, tabulated, tabulates, tribulate, tribunate, trustable, tubulated, tubulates, turbinate, turntable, utterable.

+4 letters: absolutest, abstrusest, attributed, attributes, banquettes, barquettes, beatitudes, blanquette, butterball, butterfats, debutantes, ethambutol, extubating, habituated, habituates, intuitable, masturbate, outbleated, outboasted, outdebated, outdebates, rebuttable, statutable, substrates, subtenants, subtextual, subtotaled, subtracted, subtracter, tablatures, thereabout, tribulated, tribulates, tribunates, triturable, turbinated, turbinates, turntables, turtleback, unstablest, untestable.

+5 letters: abstentious, attributive, automatable, barbiturate, blanquettes, brutalities, butterballs, carburetted, carburetter, carburettor, entablature, ethambutols, masturbated, masturbates, outbleating, outdebating, protuberant, reattribute, subliterate, substantive, subtotalled, subtracters, subtractive, thereabouts, thumbtacked, tolbutamide, trabeculate, tributaries, tuberculate, turtlebacks, unutterable, unutterably.

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