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   No·yade

   /nwäˈyäd/

   

   noun

   • 1. an execution carried out by drowning. historical

   Word Origin early 19th century (referring especially to a mass execution by drowning, carried out in France in 1794): from French, literally ‘drowning’, from the verb noyer, from Latin necare ‘kill without use of a weapon’, later ‘drown’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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