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Internecine meaning

  1. Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare.
  2. Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.

Synonyms of Internecine

internal mutually ruinous bloody

Related words

Other words often associated with Internecine or its synonyms:

red violent inward bloodthirsty inner home bloodied murderous external sanguinary crimson intrinsic

Using Internecine

  • The main meaning on this page is: Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare. | Characterized by struggle within a group, usually applied to an ethnic or familial relationship.
  • Useful related words include: internal, mutually ruinous, bloody.
  • In the example corpus, internecine often appears in combinations such as: an internecine, internecine conflict, internecine struggle.

Context around Internecine

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 13 middle, 4 end
  • Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

constant 1× ethnic 1× bloody 1× existence 1× ludicrous 1× complex 1×

Often after:

struggle 3× battle 3× violence 1× conflicts 1× disputes 1× conflict 1× confrontation 1× fights 1× strife 1× rivalries 1×

Sentence patterns with Internecine

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

a bloody internecine confrontation hopes 1× and that internecine battle continues 1× by an internecine battle between 1× by ludicrous internecine grudges 1× century of internecine struggles for 1× cosmopolitan existence internecine fights and 1× embroiled in internecine gang threats 1× exiled and internecine combata cyclone 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

and that internecine 1× battles for the 1× biden s disastrous 1× brailsford has been 1× close to the 1× during the century 1×

Common sentence endings:

and party renewal 1× dispute around 1050 1× in israeli cities 1× in this regard 1× internecine rivalries before 1× kingdom of galicia 1×

Words around Internecine

Just before it in the word index:

internazionale 19 internations 3 internationals 133 internationally 1.527 internationalizing 4 internationalized 8

Just after it in the word index:

interned 102 internees 21 internegative 2 internet 8.540 internets 11 internetwork 12

Similar in corpus frequency:

ablation 39 abure 39 abvp 39 acheampong 39 adieu 39 adjectival 39

Corpus analysis for Internecine

  • In this selection, "internecine" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, constant, ethnic, bloody, struggle, battle and violence stand out and add context to how "internecine" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a bloody internecine confrontation hopes and and that internecine battle continues. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "internecine" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with internecine

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

Internecine battle for the soul of Tripoli. (7 words)

Brailsford has been in the middle of internecine rivalries before. (10 words)

But he also became embroiled in internecine gang threats and attacks. (11 words)

Longer example sentences

For the last two years, the world of golf has been turned upside down by an internecine battle between the long-established, US-based PGA and the upstart Saudi professional league, LIV Golf, which is financed by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund. (43 words)

Over the years a schism (not, it must be observed, unusual in a music scene riven by internecine strife) in how the weekend was run led to El Gothico’s protagonists taking on new names with Stokoemotiv Whitby now playing FC Gothenheim. (42 words)

Biden’s disastrous performance in his with Trump, which plunged the Democratic Party into an internecine struggle between his supporters and those who would prefer a different standard bearer, accelerated the move to Trump. (34 words)

Question examples

What motivated them to set aside the admiration and reverence they must have had for Moses to join an internecine conflict between two Levite families over religious leadership? (28 words)

Example sentences (20)

Battles for the ear of this shallow and capricious monarch turned his court into the scene of constant internecine struggle between the ever-shifting factions within the building.

For the last two years, the world of golf has been turned upside down by an internecine battle between the long-established, US-based PGA and the upstart Saudi professional league, LIV Golf, which is financed by the kingdom’s sovereign wealth fund.

Similar clashes two years ago erupted into a bloody 11-day war between Israel and Hamas and saw major rioting and internecine violence in Israeli cities.

The lessons from Ireland, or the many ethnic, internecine conflicts in Africa and other parts of Asia are important in this regard.

The party is paralysed, consumed by factional in-fighting and internecine disputes and unable to reach sufficient consensus even to begin the process of policy development, modernisation and party renewal.

Biden’s disastrous performance in his with Trump, which plunged the Democratic Party into an internecine struggle between his supporters and those who would prefer a different standard bearer, accelerated the move to Trump.

What motivated them to set aside the admiration and reverence they must have had for Moses to join an internecine conflict between two Levite families over religious leadership?

After more than 10 years of a bloody internecine confrontation, hopes of scoring a military victory over the Islamists have so far proved to be abortive.

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And that internecine battle continues this episode, too, as Josto is warned about an influx of Italian muscle loyal to his brother.

Even as Kerala aspires to modern forms of commingled and cosmopolitan existence, internecine fights and ‘organizational factionalism’ have made the Muslim community seem to regress into atavistic forms of tribal affinities.

Internecine battle for the soul of Tripoli.

Over the years a schism (not, it must be observed, unusual in a music scene riven by internecine strife) in how the weekend was run led to El Gothico’s protagonists taking on new names with Stokoemotiv Whitby now playing FC Gothenheim.

Brailsford has been in the middle of internecine rivalries before.

But he also became embroiled in internecine gang threats and attacks.

So while the initial rift began deepening in Iraq in the mid-2000s, it developed into an internecine struggle during the early years of the Syrian civil war.

Imagine, if you will, a British government whose approach to the most pressing affairs of state was shaped entirely by ludicrous internecine grudges.

The Russia Investigations: Sessions On Edge, Bannon Exiled And Internecine CombatA cyclone of news reshapes D.C. and spins the Russia imbroglio into a significant new direction.

Close to the border with the Franks, it was effectively a crossroads between the cultures, until its eventual destruction by the Norwegians in an internecine dispute around 1050.

During the century of internecine struggles for dominance among the Northern Christians kingdoms, the County of Portugal formed the southern portion of the Kingdom of Galicia.

Harding, always a party loyalist, supported Foraker in the complex internecine warfare that was Ohio Republican politics.

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Common combinations with internecine

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "internecine" in a sentence?
An example: "Battles for the ear of this shallow and capricious monarch turned his court into the scene of constant internecine struggle between the ever-shifting factions within the building." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "internecine" from authentic English texts.
What does "internecine" mean?
Internecine means: Mutually destructive; most often applied to warfare.
What are synonyms of "internecine"?
Common synonyms of "internecine" include: internal, mutually ruinous, bloody.
How many example sentences with "internecine" are there?
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