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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 hec·a·tomb /ˈhɛkəˌtom/
 獻百頭牛的牲品;大殺戮

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hec·a·tomb n.  Antiq. A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims.
    Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed.   --Addison.
    More than a human hecatomb.   --Byron.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hecatomb
      n : a great sacrifice; an ancient Greek or Roman sacrifice of
          100 oxen