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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   battue
       n 1: a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the
            direction of the hunter
       2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the
          leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the
          bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is
          no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue
          was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed,
          battue]