Saddam
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6.1
- proper noun
- /sæˈdɑm/
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Saddam Hussein
- Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive.
- Saddam Hussein
- Saddam's regime
- President Saddam
They were married to Saddam's two daughters, Ragged and Rana.
- They were married to Saddam's two daughters, Ragged and Rana.
- Baghdad time, United States military forces captured Saddam Hussein alive.
- And he said, look, Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction.
- And they took it to Stansted in London to escape Saddam Hussein.
- Speaking of bad ideas, I mean, you grew up under Saddam Hussein in in Iraq.
- It went from protecting Saddam from revolution to now using Saddam to weaken Iran.
- We had Saddam statue being toppled in Basra.
- When was Saddam Hussein taken down?
- It was a secular Baathist regime run by Saddam Hussein.
- It's Gaddafi had it, Saddam Hussein, Adolf Hitler had it.
- You know, we weren't allowed to say, wait a minute, Saddam Hussein didn't really bomb the World Trade Center.
- Or north or North Iraq pre war with the Kurds about to fight Saddam.
- And then he got, you know, Americans came, saved Kuwait and drove out Saddam Hussein and his forces.
- And what I do here instead as well, we, we got rid of a tyrant, Saddam Hussein.
- Now, I don't know if you know this, but Saddam Hussein and his sons were very fond of swimming.
- They know that Saddam Hussein was was captured.
- So what was So back in Iraq, you got Saddam Hussein fighting against Iran.
- And eventually when and that was kind of Saddam trying to prepare.
Examples
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Saddam Hussein is bombing us!
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Why would they want to keep Saddam Hussein in power?
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Have no choice but to drive Saddam from Kuwait by force.
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I remember the day Saddam Hussein became president of this country.
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In December 1998, support for U.S. and British air strikes against Saddam was also limited, and criticism was widespread.
Academic text (1999) -
Speaking of bad ideas, I mean, you grew up under Saddam Hussein in in Iraq.
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And then he got, you know, Americans came, saved Kuwait and drove out Saddam Hussein and his forces.
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It was heavily defended by Saddam Hussein's Red Army.
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In retrospect, what would Saddam have achieved had he decided not to release the hostages so hastily?
Academic text (1991) -
Saddam Hussein was the president of Saddam Iraq from 1979 until 2003.
Synonyms
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5.6
An Iraqi leader who was president from 1979 to 2003 and led wars against Iran and Kuwait
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6.0
An Iraqi political leader, President from 1979 to 2003, who ruled strictly and led wars with Iran and Kuwait
Compounds
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9.9
An armed group in Iraq that supports Saddam Hussein and attacks his political opponents
Surface Forms
Etymology
Saddam comes from Arabic and the root ṣ-d-m, which means 'to strike' or 'to collide'. A helpful way to remember it is that Saddam means 'one who confronts' or 'one who clashes', which explains why the name sounds strong and fits the Iraqi leader known for conflict.