Massacre
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English
Noun
Massacre (plural Massacres)- The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people.
Verb
Massacre (third-person singular simple present massacres, present participle massacring, simple past and past participle massacred)
- (transitive) 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.
Adjectives for Massacre
atrocious; brutal; indiscriminate; cruel; fierce; horrid; dreadful; treacherous; wholesale; judicial; bloody .
Verbs for Massacre
decry—; denounce—; execute—; expire in—; frown on—; lust for—; perpetrate—; rebuke for—; reproach for—; resign to—; succumb in—; yield to—; —enrages; —incenses; —rages; —scandalizes; —scars; —stains; —threatens.
Adjectives for Massacre
invigorating; stimulating; scientific; frictional; healing.
Verbs for Massacre
—enlivens; —exhilarates; —invigorates; -— limbers; —quickens; refreshes; —regenerates ; —relaxes; -—relieves; —soothes; —smooths;
Synonyms
Thesaurus
annihilate, annihilating, annihilation, assassination, assault, attack, battering, bloodbath, bloodshed, bump off, butcher, butchering, butchery, carnage, commit carnage, commit genocide, commit mass murder, decimate, decimation, depopulate, destroy, disorderliness, eliminate, eradicate, execute, execution, exterminate, extermination, final solution, forcible seizure, genocide, holocaust, kill, killing, laying waste, liquidate, liquidation, looting, mass destruction, mass murder, mow down, murder, murder wholesale, murdering, obliterate, obstreperousness, onslaught, pillaging, pogrom, race extermination, race-murder, rape, riot, rioting, sacking, saturnalia of blood, slaughter, slaughtering, slay, slay en masse, slaying, sowing with salt, unruliness, violation, wholesale murder, wipe out
