(verb) : trŭcīdo, āvi, ātum, 1, perh. for truci-cidare, i. e. truncum caedere
* To cut to pieces, to slay or kill cruelly, to slaughter, butcher, massacre (class.; syn.: obtrunco, jugulo, perimo).
* Lit.: cavete neu capti sicut pecora trucidemini,Sall. C. 58, 21; cf.: pecus diripi, trucidari, Auct. B. Afr. 20, 6: cives Romanos necandos trucidandosque curavit,Cic. Imp. Pomp. 3, 7: ne hic ibidem ante oculos vestros trucidetur,id. Rosc. Am. 5, 13: trucidando occidere,Liv. 29, 18, 14: quos ferro trucidari oportebat, eos nondum voce vulnero,Cic. Cat. 1, 4, 9; id. Rosc. Am. 5, 13: ne pueros coram populo Medea trucidet,Hor. A. P. 185: trucidatae legiones,Tac. A. 2, 45: nobilissum corpus ignobili saevitiā,Val. Max. 9, 2, 2.
* Transf., to cut up, demolish; to destroy, ruin: seu pisces seu porrum et caepe trucidas,chew up,Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 21: haec (nubes) multo si forte umore recepit Ignem, continuo magno clamore trucidat,i. e. extinguishes,Lucr. 6, 147: juventus ne effundat patrimonium, ne fenore trucidetur,Cic. Cael. 18, 42: plebem fenore,Liv. 6, 37, 2.