Definitions for hecatombs

hecatombs hec·a·tomb

Spelling: [hek-uh-tohm, -toom]
IPA: /ˈhɛk əˌtoʊm, -ˌtum/

Hecatombs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 707 anagrams from letters in hecatombs (abcehmost).

Definitions for hecatombs

noun

  1. (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
  2. any great slaughter:

Origin of hecatombs

1585-95; Latin hecatombē Greek hekatómbē *hekatombwā, equivalent to hékaton one hundred + *-bwā, taken to be a derivative of boûs ox (see cow1)

Examples for hecatombs

The hunter turns faint, sick, as he contemplates this hecatomb of corpses.

I believe, in different climes, I have already sacrificed an hecatomb to my Nemesis, in pursuance of this vow.

Before falling, I should make a hecatomb of my cowardly assassins.

They would first make a hecatomb of their hated foes, and then fall upon it.

He escorted Chryseis on board and sent moreover a hecatomb for the god.

Make a hecatomb of the present Hamleys all at once, while you are about it.

Then Cinna, who not long before would have laughed at faith in Hecate, sacrificed a hecatomb to her.

Consumption had swept a hecatomb of victims from the family.

Yearly will Charless Bath claim its hecatomb; I know not why.

Pile up, high as heaven, your hecatomb of victims, offered to the God of love.

Word Value for hecatombs
Scrable

17

Words with friends

19

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