Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun battue

2 senses of battue

Sense 1
battue -- (a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter)
       => hunt, hunting -- (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)

Sense 2
bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue -- (indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered")
       => slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)