"take no prisoners" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Implying that one kills all one's enemies instead of capturing them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes no prisoners",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking no prisoners",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took no prisoners",
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        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken no prisoners",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "2015 January 21, “Ex Machina: Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), New Scientist:",
          "text": "It’s a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be uncompromising."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "uncompromising",
          "uncompromising"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be uncompromising."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be uncompromising",
          "word": "ne pas faire de prisonniers"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to be uncompromising",
          "word": "ne pas faire de cadeaux"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to be uncompromising",
          "word": "keine Gefangenen machen"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to be uncompromising",
          "word": "nem ismer irgalmat"
        }
      ]
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          "_dis": "16 84",
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      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, prisoner."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take#English"
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        [
          "prisoner",
          "prisoner#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 100",
          "word": "no quarter"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "word": "take no prisoners"
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    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with French translations",
    "Terms with German translations",
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  "etymology_text": "Implying that one kills all one's enemies instead of capturing them.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "takes no prisoners",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taking no prisoners",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "took no prisoners",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "taken no prisoners",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "no quarter"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
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        "English idioms",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2015 January 21, “Ex Machina: Quest to create an AI takes no prisoners”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), New Scientist:",
          "text": "It’s a rare thing to see a movie about science that takes no prisoners intellectually.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To be uncompromising."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "uncompromising",
          "uncompromising"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To be uncompromising."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see take, prisoner."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "take",
          "take#English"
        ],
        [
          "prisoner",
          "prisoner#English"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be uncompromising",
      "word": "ne pas faire de prisonniers"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to be uncompromising",
      "word": "ne pas faire de cadeaux"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to be uncompromising",
      "word": "keine Gefangenen machen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "to be uncompromising",
      "word": "nem ismer irgalmat"
    }
  ],
  "word": "take no prisoners"
}