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Definition: ATROCITIES |
ATROCITIESPlural1. Of Atrocity |
Date "ATROCITIES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1796. (references) |
Crosswords: ATROCITIES |
| English words defined with "ATROCITIES": Kurt Waldheim ♦ Waldheim. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ATROCITIES": Dragonades ♦ Exile. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ATROCITIES": Atrocity. (references) |
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Screenplays | One of the world's greater atrocities. (Everwood; writing credit: Michael Green; Rina Mimoun) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / Wm. Wadsworth(?). Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Ruins of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, after Nazi atrocities. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | An illustration of German atrocities. German woman, with shaven head, who was forced to carry a sign which translates as: "I am the worst swine in the village; I had dealings with Poles. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
Voltaire | If we believe absurdities we shall commit atrocities. |
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Children | Liberia | Nearly all youths witnessed terrible atrocities, and some committed atrocities themselves. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Guatemala | From March to August the Government negotiated a settlement with the IAPS and with survivors of Irma Flaquer who, before she was kidnaped in 1980, published a column entitled "What Others Conceal" that was critical of the atrocities committed during the conflict. (references) |
Economic History | Equatorial Guinea | Although the abuses and atrocities that characterized the Macias years have been eliminated, effective rule of law does not exist. (references) |
Human Rights | Russia | Nevertheless there were numerous credible reports of human rights abuses and atrocities committed by federal forces. (references) |
Congo | Officially, the RCD/Goma established measures to investigate and punish rebel soldiers guilty of committing atrocities against civilian populations. (references) | |
Congo | However, the initiative largely remained ignored and ineffective, and there were no reports that the RCD/Goma tried, convicted, or punished any of its troops for committing atrocities. (references) | |
Indigenous People | India | Special courts to hear complaints of atrocities committed against tribal people were to have been established under the Protection of Civil Rights Act, but this never was accomplished. (references) |
Minorities | Liberia | Members of the Lorma, Gio, and Mano minorities generally held all Mandingos responsible for atrocities committed by the ULIMO-Mandingo faction during the civil war. (references) |
India | The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act lists offenses against disadvantaged persons and provides for stiff penalties for offenders. (references) | |
Political Economy | Sierra Leone | Rebel atrocities caused the internal displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians over the past several years; however, such displacement was reduced significantly during the year. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply: Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world! |
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James Madison | 1809-1817 | Nor can it be pretended that they are not answerable for the atrocities perpetrated, since the savages are employed with a knowledge, and even with menaces, that their fury could not be controlled. |
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| "ATROCITIES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ATROCITIES" is used about 242 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 242 | 19,213 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ATROCITIES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الاعمال الوحشية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | zvìrstva. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schreckenstaten, Greueltat (atrocity, bestiality, outrage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rémtettek. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | atrocitiesay ужасы. (various references) zverstva, užasni prizori. (various references) atrocidades. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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"ATROCITIES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: atrocitiy, attrocities. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "ATROCITIES" (pronounced utrÄ"sutēz) |
| 6 | -Ä" s u t ē z | animosities, curiosities, velocities. |
| 5 | -s u t ē z | capacities, complexities, densities, eccentricities, intensities, necessities, niceties, propensities, universities. |
| 4 | -u t ē z | abilities, abnormalities, absurdities, activities, affinities, ambiguities, amenities, annuities, antiquities, anxieties, authorities, availabilities, banalities, brutalities, calamities, capabilities, causalities, cavities, celebrities, charities, commodities, commonalities, communities, deformities, deities, deputies, disabilities, disability, disparities, divinities, enmities, entities, equities, extremities, facilities, fatalities, festivities, fidelities, formalities, fraternities, generalities, gratuities, hostilities, humanities, humanity, identities, illegalities, immunities, improprieties, impurities, indemnities, indignities, inequalities, inequities, infidelities, infirmities, insecurities, instabilities, irregularities, legalities, liabilities, liquidities, localities, majorities, maturities, minorities, modalities, municipalities, nationalities, obscenities, oddities, opportunities, parities, peculiarities, personalities, pieties, possibilities, principalities, priorities, probabilities, proclivities, qualities, quantities, rarities, realities, responsibilities, rigidities, securities, sensibilities, sensitivities, similarities, societies, sororities, technicalities, tonalities, unfamiliarities, utilities, vanities, varieties, verities, vulnerabilities. |
| 3 | -t ē z | amnesties, Antes, beauties, booties, bounties, casualties, certainties, christies, cities, committees, counties, cruelties, diabetes, difficulties, ditties, duties, dynasties, eighties, empties, entreaties, faculties, fatties, fifties, forties, frailties, lefties, liberties, loyalties, Montes, nineties, novelties, panties, parties, patties, penalties, pretties, properties, royalties, seventies, shanties, sixties, sorties, specialities, specialties, subcommittees, subtleties, thirties, travesties, treaties, twenties, uncertainties, vigilantes, warranties, zlotys. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-o-r-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: eroticist. | |
-2 letters: aoristic, artistic, citators, citrates, cottiers, cristate, osteitic, ricottas, scattier, toastier. | |
-3 letters: airiest, artiest, artiste, astrict, attires, cattier, catties, citator, citrate, coaster, coaters, costate, cottars, cotters, cottier, cristae, eristic, erotica, erotics, iratest, raciest, ratites, ricotta, rotates, satiric, scatter, scoriae, scottie, soritic, statice, stearic, striate, tastier, toaster, tricots, trisect. | |
-4 letters: actors, airest, aorist, aortic. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-o-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: creationist, recitations, recitativos. | |
+2 letters: creationists, crepitations, extrications, felicitators, interactions, metrications, obstetrician, ratiocinates. | |
+3 letters: acetonitriles, actinometries, aromaticities, autoeroticism, contrarieties, ectoparasitic, exercitations, indoctrinates, intersocietal, masticatories, obstetricians, petrifactions, practitioners, precipitators, reactivations, recreationist, resuscitation, reticulations, theoreticians. | |
+4 letters: abortifacients, accreditations, aeroelasticity, architectonics, autoeroticisms, bacteriologist, bacteriostasis, bacteriostatic, bacterizations, cartelizations, cauterizations, certifications, chromaticities, coinvestigator, contrapositive, cooperationist, decortications, decrepitations, eroticizations, esterification, intercalations, intersectional, osteoarthritic, overactivities, petrifications, precipitations, recreationists, rectifications, resuscitations, sclerotization, securitization, streptobacilli, superpatriotic. | |
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