massacre in English

noun

1

an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.

the attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre

synonyms: slaughter, wholesale/mass slaughter, indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass execution, annihilation, liquidation, decimation, extermination, carnage, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting, pogrom, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, night of the long knives, slaying

verb

1

deliberately and violently kill (a large number of people).

In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured.

synonyms: slaughter, butcher, murder, kill, annihilate, exterminate, execute, liquidate, eliminate, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, put to the sword, put to death, slay

noun

• slaughter, wholesale/mass slaughter, indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass execution, annihilation, liquidation, decimation, extermination, carnage, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting, pogrom, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, night of the long knives, slaying
• carnage, butchery, mass murder, slaughter

verb

• slaughter, butcher, murder, kill, annihilate, exterminate, execute, liquidate, eliminate, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, put to the sword, put to death, slay
• mow down, slaughter

Use "massacre" in a sentence

1. Nobody survived the massacre.

2. The massacre at Acre, Sire.

3. Bubale massacre mounted on crest

4. Beason massacre survivor has been adopted

5. One death weighed against a massacre.

6. Charlotte d’Arbaleste, Escape from the Massacre

7. The massacre was shameful, the losses piteous.

8. When does a massacre become a genocide?

9. United lost in a 9-0 massacre.

10. The massacre was a crime against humanity.

11. The game was a 0 - 8 massacre.

12. He survived the massacre by feigning death.

13. The massacre was carried out by enemy troops.

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15. The Katyn Massacre (A Master of Arts Thesis).

16. She was the sole survivor of the massacre.

17. There is widespread public outrage over the massacre.

18. Brutalised but defiant: Christchurch massacre survivors one year on

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20. The little orphan girl of the Kansas prairie massacre.

21. The numbers killed in the massacre are probably exaggerated.

22. They all led with the news of the massacre.

23. Bloodbath (plural Bloodbaths) Indiscriminate killing or slaughter, a massacre

24. My little St. Valentine's Day Massacre showed the NVA.

25. A general massacre, fled in Affrighted haste to Jerusalem.

26. If the Apache get them, they'll massacre the territory.

27. The streets were running with blood after the massacre.

28. He ordered the massacre of 000 women and children.

29. The game was a 100 massacre for our team.

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31. The perpetrators ended the massacre by taking their own lives.

32. The author also provides eyewitness accounts of the Kolno massacre.

33. As many as fifty men took part in the massacre.

34. Your mother gave birth in the madness of the massacre

35. I think the huge scale massacre of pheasants is revolting.

36. Your mother gave birth in the madness of the massacre.

37. There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.

38. The Situation in Northern Syria — No Revolutionary Movement — Massacre at Aintab —

39. Bear River Massacre 29 January – Shoshone forces massacred by Union troops.

40. Nearly half of the village's residents were killed in this massacre.

41. The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921

42. The Armenian massacre is considered the first genocide of the 20th century

43. Finally it arrived last Friday, the week after the Avengeful, Jos massacre

44. One video film was advertised as “92 minutes of rape and massacre”!

45. You have already put the people of Xianyang in danger of massacre!

46. There have also been numerous memorials of the massacre around the world.

47. The worldly-wise students had seen videos of the Tiananmen massacre online.

48. As she continued her oratorical massacre, he came to a sober realization.

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