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" But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour."
Wendell Willkie

Meaning of "internecine" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD INTERNECINE

From Latin internecīnus, from internecāre to destroy, from necāre to kill.
Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF INTERNECINE

ˌɪntəˈniːsaɪn


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF INTERNECINE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Internecine is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES INTERNECINE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of internecine in the English dictionary

The first definition of internecine in the dictionary is mutually destructive or ruinous; maiming both or all sides. Other definition of internecine is of or relating to slaughter or carnage; bloody. Internecine is also of or involving conflict within a group or organization.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH INTERNECINE

assign · consign · cosign · cosine · ensign · hircine · inosine · percine · piscine · porcine · quercine · re-sign · rusine · sign · sine · subursine · syn · thylacine · ursine · versine

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE INTERNECINE

internationalism · internationalist · internationality · internationalization · internationalize · internationally · interne · internecive · internee · internet · internet access · internet access provider · internet bank · internet service provider · internet site · interneural · interneuron · interneuronal

WORDS THAT END LIKE INTERNECINE

alternative medicine · australopithecine · Chinese medicine · dryopithecine · fettucine · galeopithecine · glycine · herbal medicine · internal medicine · leucine · medicine · nuclear medicine · physical medicine · preventive medicine · Racine · ramapithecine · sports medicine · telecine · vaccine · veterinary medicine

Synonyms and antonyms of internecine in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «INTERNECINE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «internecine» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «internecine» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF INTERNECINE

Find out the translation of internecine to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of internecine from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «internecine» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

自相残杀
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

intestina
570 millions of speakers
en

English

internecine
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

आपसी
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الضروس
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

междоусобная
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

intestina
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

মারাত্মক
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

intestine
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Internecine
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

mörderisch
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

内輪もめの
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

죽이는
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Internecine
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm chết
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

உட்பகை
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

हट्टी
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

her iki taraf içinde öldürücü olan
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

intestino
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

bratobójczej
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

міжусобна
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

pustiitor
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

internecine
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onderlinge
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

internecine
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

internecine
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of internecine

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «INTERNECINE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about internecine

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QUOTES WITH «INTERNECINE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word internecine.
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Wendell Willkie
But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «INTERNECINE»

Discover the use of internecine in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to internecine and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Internecine
“Smart, scathing, and verbally inventive to an astonishing degree, David J. Schow is one of the most interesting writers of his generation.”—Peter Straub “Inter-what?” When advertising executive Conrad Maddox returns from a redeye ...
David J. Schow, 2010
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Re-Defining Legitimate Statehood: International Law and ...
International. Law,. Multilateral. African. Institutions,. and. the. Prevention. of. Internecine. Conflict. Within. Established. African. States. A. The Crux of the Arguments In this chapter, an attempt will be made to understand the ways in which ...
Obiora Chinedu Okafor, 2000
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Garner's Modern American Usage
Often, in fact, it is used to mean nothing more than “internal”—e.g.: • “But whoever emerges victorious from the internecine [delete internecine] Internet wars, the one sure winner is guaranteed to be the business and residential consumer.
Bryan Garner, 2009
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100 Words Every Word Lover Should Know
Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group: "While he was becoming more and more closely drawn into the internecine politics of the Socialist party and its pro-Bolshevik and anti-Bolshevik offshoots, she was getting a ...
Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries, 2005
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What is Africa's Problem?
As such, he has proven a powerful force for change, not just in Uganda but across the turbulent span of African states. This collection of Museveni's writings and speeches lays out the possibilities for social change in Africa.
Yoweri Museveni, Elizabeth Kanyogonya, 2000
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Framley Parsonage: Easyread Large Bold Edition
Chapter. 40. Internecine. It must be conceived that there was some feeling of triumph at Plumstead Episcopi, when the wife of the rector returned home with her daughter, the bride elect of the Lord Dumbello. The heir of the Marquess of ...
Anthony Trollope, 2008
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The Italian Fascist Party in Power: A Study in Totalitarian Rule
6. Internecine. Struggles. The relationships between the single party and the other institutions of a totalitarian dictatorship form a fascinating pattern. Outwardly , the totalitarian state is a beautiful, harmoniously operating piece of machinery.
Dante L. Germino, 1959
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Empire of Texts in Motion: Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese ...
Redefining. Suffering. from. Internecine. Corruption. and. Foreign. Aggression. Many early twentieth-century Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese literary works that intertextualize Japanese creative texts in ways that highlight the physical and ...
Karen Laura Thornber, 2009
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Cowboy Metaphysics: Ethics and Death in Westerns
The internecine conflicts may involve different frameworks for the ethics or different interpretations of the admonitions of Christianity within the same framework. In Pale Rider, for example, the conflict, as identified by the Preacher, is "whose ...
Peter A. French, 1997
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Nigeria's Stumbling Democracy and Its Implications for ...
allotted to the regions and expressed in the three regional constitutions with their own mottoes, flags, and foreign missions as well as in the federal constitution, the struggle for the control of federal power remained severely divisive, internecine ...
Victor Oguejiofor Okafor, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «INTERNECINE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term internecine is used in the context of the following news items.
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Democrats' corporate and progressive wings dicker over SEC …
An internecine battle between the so-called corporate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party has broken out over who will replace ... «MarketWatch, Jul 15»
2
Practice Makes Perfect - WSJ
Both high resource use and low political costs were generally true in the West in centuries of internecine wars, which gave them distinctive ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
3
Google robo-car in rear-end smash – but cack-handed human …
The prang follows a non-crash with a Delphi robotic car in what initially seemed the beginning of an internecine tincandroid conflict. Google's ... «The Register, Jul 15»
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A thought-provoking approach to Julius Caesar: review | Toronto Star
Can the devious, internecine politics of Imperial Rome throw any light on the current political scene, with a repressive government dominated ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
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STUMPS REPORT: Benny Howell ton puts Gloucestershire in …
... but it was Howell and Noema-Barnett who caught the eye as nearly three days of internecine struggle gave way to champagne cricket in the ... «Bristol Post, Jul 15»
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ANC can't halt inevitable Cosatu split | Opinion | Analysis | M&G
But you will not find an understanding of the origins of this crisis of unparalleled internecine hostility and rivalry in the combustible heat ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Jul 15»
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Rift in the SLFP widening | The Nation
This is eerily reminiscent of the internecine clashes between Sirima Bandaranaike and Maithripala Senanayake in the early eighties and ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jul 15»
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A Widely Praised Documentary Gets An Even Better Second …
... brave people like Adi and uncompromising movies like The Look of Silence can immunize Indonesia against another internecine slaughter. «WUWM, Jul 15»
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Ammar Al Shahbander: Baghdad head of the Institute of War and …
As Iraq sank into a decade of terrible internecine conflict. Ammar endured through it all, constantly travelling across the country. «The Independent, Jul 15»
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Three Things to Look For in Today's Reddit CEO 'Ask Me Anything …
All of that, in addition to the internecine drama among Redditors, will be hovering above the entire AMA. To help parse all that for you, here are ... «Re/code, Jul 15»
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