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n. The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.

n. The slaughter of a large number of animals.

n. Informal A severe defeat, as in a sports event.

v. To kill indiscriminately and wantonly; slaughter.

v. Informal To defeat decisively.

v. Informal To botch; bungle: massacred the French language trying to order dinner.

n. The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the norms of civilized people.

n. Murder.

v. To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the norms of civilized people; to butcher; to slaughter. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)

n. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people.

n. Murder.

v. 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.

n. The indiscriminate killing of human beings; the unnecessary slaughter of a number of persons, as in barbarous warfare or persecution, or for revenge or plunder: as, the massacre of Glencoe: sometimes applied also to the wholesale killing of wild animals.

n. In heraldry, a pair of antlers or attires attached to a piece of the skull, used as a bearing.

To kill with attendant circumstances of atrocity; butcher; slaughter: commonly used in reference to the killing of a large number of human beings at once, who are not in a condition to defend themselves.

Synonyms Murder, Slaughter, etc. See kill.

v. kill a large number of people indiscriminately

n. the savage and excessive killing of many people

"For a discussion of the word massacre and Marlowe, see Graham Hammill, “Time for Marlowe,” ELH, vol. 75, no."

massacred    massacres    massacring   

kill   

murder    massacre of the innocents   

mass murder   

massacred    massacring   

carnage    butchery    murder    butcher    slaughter    killing    scupper    magophony    pogrom    populicide   

slaughter    bloodshed    outrage    oppression    atrocity    devastation    robbery    persecution    carnage    assassination