Thuggee

/ʈʰʌ.ɡiː/

Synonyms for "thuggee" (14 found)

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Related words (7)

Noun(4 words)
secret brotherhoodsecret murder cultsecret societythuggery

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More general

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criminal networkcriminal organizationexecutionmurderorganized crimesecret societyslaying

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5 entries
mass murderritual murderritual strangulationsecret ritesstrangulation

Collocations

6 entries
British India erasecret society thuggeethuggee crimesthuggee cultthuggee murdersthuggee suppression

Inflections

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Derivations

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Sample sentences

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‘In India, where everything began, this kind of human activity, obscene in itself, was undertaken on behalf of a goddess, called, I think, Kali; the murder was an act of so-called thugee, I was told.’

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