urbicidal

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɜːbɪˈsaɪdəl/   

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Pertaining to or having the nature of urbicide, that being the deliberate “killing” of a city by the razing of distinctive physical manifestations of its urban identity, stifling of the social activity therein, and its general destruction as an edifice of civilisation. not-comparable
    — Hence the ‘urbicidal’ aspect of the war, destruction of the cities as places of mixing and of centuries-old civilisation, places of openness and of tolerance, destruction of bridges as witnesses of historical exchange and physical bonds between groups presently at war and which the warring élites try to present as historicaly,^([sic]) traditionally enemies.
  2. Inimical to the vitality of a city. not-comparable
    — The urbicidal effect of the staggering local property tax rates is aggravated by the large amount of property that, for one reason or another, is tax exempt…

词源

Latin urb(s) (“city”) + English -icidal (literally, “city-killing”).
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