| 单词 | suttee |
| 释义 | suttee (once / 29256 pages) n WORD FAMILY suttee: suttees USAGE EXAMPLESAs these things are done in Britain—swiftly—Miliband committed suttee this morning, resigning as Labour’s leader. The New Yorker(May 08, 2015) They encounter a ritual suttee in India as well as an untoilet-trained elephant, an opium den in China, a typhoon on the open sea. Seattle Times(Feb 09, 2015) Even their wives were sacrificed, in the earliest known examples of the patriarchal practice of suttee. Slate(Jul 30, 2012) n the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband Hyper self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide the act of killing yourself |
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