internecine

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Palestinian internecine, asserting that Gaza Strip was calmer than some cities in Arab countries.

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  1. adjective Of or relating to struggle within a nation, organization, or group.
  2. adjective Mutually destructive; ruinous or fatal to both sides.
  3. adjective Characterized by bloodshed or carnage.
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  • MLW might have become much more than what it is today, but for the internecine Anti-Semitism Wars and their aftermath. —  My Left Wing - Front Page
  • One of the reasons Sparks sat out a race against Sen. Jeff Sessions last cycle was to avoid precisely this kind of internecine battle - state Sen. Vivian Figures insisted on making what turned out to be a rather quixotic run. —  Swing State Project
  • That's the whole reason you pay for your vacation with MasterCard-to be protected from this kind of internecine squabble. —  Hartford Courant blogs
  • Palestinian internecine, asserting that Gaza Strip was calmer than some cities in Arab countries. —  IMRA Middle East News Updates
  • "About all I can assure you is that when the good old boys who call the shots - it doesn't matter if the good old boys are Democrats or Republicans - this is the kind of internecine, political warfare you see when one of them suddenly lose," said Elliot Stoncipher, a political analyst and demographer with Evets Management Services.
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  1. Latin internecīnus, destructive, variant of internecīvus, from internecāre, to slaughter : inter-, intensive pref.; see inter- + nex, nec-, death; see nek-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin internecinus, another reading of internecivus, deadly, murderous: see internecive.
 

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