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Massacre

Massacre Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Massacre? [n] the savage and excessive killing of many people [v] kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Massacre: butchery \| carnage \| mass murder \| mow down \| slaughter \| slaughter Related Terms \| Find terms related to Massacre: 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 See Also \| Alamo \| Battle of Little Bighorn \| Battle of the Little Bighorn \| battue \| bloodbath \| bloodletting \| bloodshed \| Custer's Last Stand \| execution \| homicide \| kill \| Little Bighorn \| murder \| slaying Massacre In Webster's Dictionary \Mas"sacre\, n. [F., fr. LL. mazacrium; cf. Prov. G. metzgern, metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to cut, hew, OHG. meizan to cut, Goth. m['a]itan.] 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day. 2. Murder. [Obs.] --Shak. Syn: {Massacre}, {Butchery}, {Carnage}. Usage: Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who can not make resistance, or much resistance. Butchery refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts. Carnage points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain. I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family. --Shak. If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries. --Shak. Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable ! --Milton. \Mas"sacre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Massacred}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Massacring}.] [Cf. F. massacrer. See {Massacre}, n.] 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. If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. --Macaulay.

Massacre Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Massacre?

[n] the savage and excessive killing of many people
[v] kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

Massacre In Webster's Dictionary

\Mas"sa*cre\, n. [F., fr. LL. mazacrium; cf. Prov. G.
metzgern, metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and
LG. matsken to cut, hew, OHG. meizan to cut, Goth.
m['a]itan.]
1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under
   circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the
   usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St.
   Bartholomew's Day.



2. Murder. [Obs.] --Shak.

Syn: {Massacre}, {Butchery}, {Carnage}.

Usage: Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who
       can not make resistance, or much resistance. Butchery
       refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men
       as if they were brute beasts. Carnage points to
       slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the
       slain.

             I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze
             their faction and their family.   --Shak.

             If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
             Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries. --Shak.

             Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable
             !                                 --Milton.


\Mas"sa*cre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Massacred}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Massacring}.] [Cf. F. massacrer. See {Massacre}, n.]
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.

      If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as
      Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. --Macaulay.

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