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单词 giganticide
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giganticiden.1

/dʒʌɪˈɡantɪsʌɪd/
Etymology: < Latin gigant(i)-, gigās giant n. and adj. + -cide comb. form1.
A giant-killer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killer for specific reason or type of person > [noun] > of other specific types
deicide1653
magistricide1670
modernicide1760
prenticecide1797
giganticide1806
nigger-killer1856
1806 R. Southey Let. 17 June in C. C. Southey Life & Corr. R. Southey (1850) III. xii. 43 Jack the Giganticide's leathern bag.
1883 Times 20 Dec. 9 The young preferred to live in Fairyland, among fairy godmothers, giganticides, genii good or bad.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

giganticiden.2

/dʒʌɪˈɡantɪsʌɪd/
Etymology: formed as giganticide n.1 + -cide comb. form2.
The killing of giants.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [noun] > of other specific types
deicide1611
negrocide1852
giganticide1860
theoktony1875
termination1969
1860 J. E. Worcester Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Hallam).
a1876 G. Dawson Serm. Disputed Points (1878) 184 The wonderful hero who ascended into an invisible land and took to giganticide.

Derivatives

gigantiˈcidal adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > killing of type of person > [adjective] > of other specific types
deicidal1848
theoktonic1875
giganticidal1891
1891 S. Mostyn Curatica 55 I had become familiar in childhood with the giganticidal precocity of beanstalks.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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