Internecine
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[编辑] 解释
[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- adj. 内讧的, 两败俱伤的
- ［英］ adj. 内讧的, 两败俱伤的 ( deadly or harmful to both sides of a group)
- ［记］ inter ( 相互) +nec ( 杀) +ine -> 互相杀 -> 自相残杀
- ［例］ Soon after the internecine for control began, the empire sank into lassitude.
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
adjective
- Etymology: Latin internecinus, from internecare to destroy, kill, from inter- + necare to kill, from nec-, nex violent death — more at noxious
- Date: 1663
- 1. marked by slaughter ; deadly; especially mutually destructive
- 2. of, relating to, or involving conflict within a group <bitter internecine feuds>
