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Synonyms for massacre
ˈmæs ə kərmas·sacre
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Wiktionary
massacrenoun
massacrenoun
To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter - limited to the killing of human beings.
massacrenoun
Murder.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
massacre
A massacre is the indiscriminate killing in numbers of the unresisting or defenseless; butchery is the killing of men rudely and ruthlessly as cattle are killed in the shambles. Havoc may not be so complete as massacre, nor so coldly brutal as butchery, but is more widely spread and furious; it is destruction let loose, and may be applied to organizations, interests, etc., as well as to human life; "as for Saul, he made havoc of the church," Acts viii, 3. Carnage (Latin caro, carnis, flesh) refers to widely scattered or heaped up corpses of the slain; slaughter is similar in meaning, but refers more to the process, as carnage does to the result; these two words only of the group may be used of great destruction of life in open and honorable battle, as when we say the enemy was repulsed with great slaughter, or the carnage was terrible.
Princeton's WordNet
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcheryverb
the savage and excessive killing of many people
Synonyms:
trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, shambles, slaughtermassacre, slaughter, mow downverb
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
Editors Contribution
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
massacre
Synonyms:
Mass murder, see there
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Words popularity by usage frequency
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#5377 | killing | |
#9216 | holocaust | |
#14083 | slaughter | |
#14417 | genocide | |
#14956 | massacre | |
#16340 | butcher | |
#19402 | havoc | |
#19985 | whipping | |
#28633 | carnage | |
#37117 | debacle | |
#44214 | massacres | |
#45032 | shambles | |
#49473 | slaughterhouse | |
#50506 | thrashing | |
#68074 | bloodbath | |
#76162 | abattoir | |
#90986 | butchering | |
#93025 | butchery | |
#101739 | bloodletting | |
#140156 | drubbing | |
#168547 | trouncing | |
#302347 | walloping |
How to use massacre in a sentence?
Before this highway was built, this was a one-way rail system. The witness said that his grandfather took him up to the tracks and told him that during the massacre they brought in rail flats right here where this road goes down the middle of Oaklawn Cemetery, they built a trench, they dug a trench and dumped bodies down into the trenches, he said there had to have been an excess of 300 bodies in that one location alone.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
He made a decision to massacre, and he did, twelve dead from the community. Can anything outweigh that? No. No.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre but they are more deadly in the long run.
This is a massacre. A barbarity. These police surrounded the house and burned it after my nephew refused to let them put snipers on the roof.
Translations for massacre
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- مذبحةArabic
- massacrar, massacreCatalan, Valencian
- masakrovat, masakrCzech
- llofruddiaethWelsh
- massakre, massakrereDanish
- Massaker, massakrierenGerman
- σφαγήGreek
- amasbuĉado, masakroEsperanto
- masacrar, masacreSpanish
- tapatalgEstonian
- verilöyly, joukkomurhata, joukkomurha, teurastaa, teurastusFinnish
- massacre, massacrerFrench
- טבחHebrew
- mészárlásHungarian
- PembantaianIndonesian
- みなごろし, 虐殺, 惨殺, 大虐殺Japanese
- 학살Korean
- trucidatioLatin
- žudynės, skerdynėsLithuanian
- slaktiņš, masveida slepkavībaLatvian
- whakapiko, hingahinga, tārukenga, parewheroMāori
- massakrere, massakreNorwegian
- masakraPolish
- massacrar, massacrePortuguese
- резня́, бо́йня, ма́ссовое уби́йствоRussian
- masakr, поубијати, масакрирати, сеча, поклати, poklati, poubijati, масакр, masakrirati, seča, pokolj, покољ, крвопролиће, krvoprolićeSerbo-Croatian
- masakraSlovak
- masaker, pokol, poklatiSlovene
- massakerSwedish
- படுகொலைTamil
- ఊచకోతTelugu
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