atrocities
- 1Plural of atrocity.
Investigators gathered evidence of the atrocities committed against civilians.
The tribunal was established to prosecute those responsible for wartime atrocities.
Note
Only the countable meanings of atrocity can take this plural. The abstract quality (enormous wickedness, extreme criminality or cruelty) is uncountable, so a plural normally points to acts: cruelties done to people, as in wartime atrocities. The same plural also carries the lighter meaning of something hideous, so a row of ugly towers can be called architectural atrocities. Context, not grammar, tells the two apart.
atrocities is a form of atrocity
atrocity, noun: An act involving extreme cruelty or appalling injustice. Full entry
- Forms
- atrocityatrocities plural
- Spelling
- atrocity → atrocities: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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