aceldama
noun
Roget 728:
arena,
field,
platform;
scene of action,
theater;
walk,
course;
hustings;
stare,
boards
etc.
(playhouse)
599;
amphitheater;
Coliseum,
Colosseum;
Flavian amphitheater,
hippodrome,
circus,
race course,
corso [Sp.],
turf,
cockpit,
bear garden,
playground,
gymnasium,
palestra,
ring,
lists;
tiltyard†,
tilting ground;
Campus Martins,
Champ de Allars†;
campus [U.S.].
boxing ring,
canvas.
theater of war,
seat of war;
battle-field,
battle-ground;
field of battle,
field of slaughter;
Aceldama†,
camp;
the enemy's camp;
trusting place
etc.
(place of meeting)
74.
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Roget 361:
killing
etc.
v.;
homicide,
manslaughter,
murder,
assassination,
trucidation†,
iccusion†;
effusion of blood;
blood,
blood shed;
gore,
slaughter,
carnage,
butchery;
battue†.
massacre;
fusillade,
noyade†;
thuggery,
Thuggism†.
deathblow,
finishing stroke,
coup de grace,
quietus;
execution
etc.
(capital punishment)
972;
judicial murder;
martyrdom.
butcher,
slayer,
murderer,
Cain,
assassin,
terrorist,
cutthroat,
garroter,
bravo,
Thug,
Moloch,
matador,
sabreur†;
guet-a-pens;
gallows,
executioner
etc.
(punishment)
975;
man-eater,
apache†,
hatchet man [U.S.],
highbinder [U.S.].
regicide,
parricide,
matricide,
fratricide,
infanticide,
feticide,
foeticide†,
uxoricide†,
vaticide†.
suicide,
felo de se†,
hara-kiri,
suttee,
Juggernath†;
immolation,
auto da fe,
holocaust.
suffocation,
strangulation,
garrote;
hanging
etc.
v.;
lapidation†.
deadly weapon
etc.
(arms)
727;
Aceldama†.
[Destruction of animals]
slaughtering;
phthisozoics†;
sport,
sporting;
the chase,
venery;
hunting,
coursing,
shooting,
fishing;
pig-sticking;
sportsman,
huntsman,
fisherman;
hunter,
Nimrod;
slaughterhouse,
meat packing plant,
shambles,
abattoir.
fatal accident,
violent death,
casualty.
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Moby thesaurus: Belsen, DMZ, abattoir, battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, butchery, combat area, combat zone, concentration camp, enemy line, field, field of battle, field of blood, firing line, front line, gas chamber, killing ground, landing beach, line, line of battle, seat of war, shambles, slaughterhouse, stockyard, the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, zone of communications ... show more.
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