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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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 |
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Dictionary Results for massacre: |
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
massacre
n 1: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn:
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage,
butchery]
v 1: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus
massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre,
slaughter, mow down]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Massacre \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.
[1913 Webster]
If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as
Maximian had massacred the Theban legion. --Macaulay.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Massacre \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; the St. Valentine's Day massacre; the
Amritsar massacre; the Wounded Knee massacre.
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2. Murder. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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I'll find a day to massacre them all,
And raze their faction and their family. --Shak.
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If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds,
Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries. --Shak.
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Such a scent I draw
Of carnage, prey innumerable! --Milton.
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Common Misspellings > |
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