sparagmos

[spuh-rag-muhs]

noun

1. the tearing to pieces of a live victim, as a bull or a calf, by a band of bacchantes in a Dionysian orgy.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sparagmos¹

From the Greek word sparagmós literally, tearing

Example Sentences

The miscreants who enact the sparagmos of the heroine by tearing her into a hundred pieces are also female.

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