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sparagmos

[ spuh-rag-muhs ]

noun

  1. the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of sparagmos1

From the Greek word 貹ó literally, tearing
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Example Sentences

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The miscreants who enact the sparagmos of the heroine by tearing her into a hundred pieces are also female.

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