Massacre

Noun

 * 1) The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people.
 * the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day
 * St. Valentine's Day massacre
 * Amritsar massacre
 * the Wounded Knee massacre
 * 1)  Murder.
 * 2) * 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third
 * The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
 * The most arch deed of piteous massacre
 * That ever yet this land was guilty of.

Synonyms

 * butchery, carnage, slaughter.
 * Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who can not make resistance, or much resistance.
 * 1592, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, I,v
 * I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family
 * Butchery refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts.
 * 1593, William Shakespeare, Richard III, I,ii
 * If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Behold this pattern of thy butcheries
 * Carnage points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain.
 * 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost
 * Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable!

Related terms

 * mass murder

Verb

 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1849, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History Of England From the Accession of James II
 * If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximilian had massacred the Theban legion

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—; pjot—; rebuke for—; reproach for—; resign to—; succumb in—; yield to—; —despatches; —enrages; —ensanguines; —incenses; —rages; —scandalizes; —scars; —stains; —threatens.

See also

bloodshed, killing, murder, assassination, slaughter, violence. (See bloodshed, killing, murder, assassination, slaughter, violence.)

Adjectives for Massacre
invigorating; stimulating; scientific; frictional; healing.

Verbs for Massacre
—enlivens; —exhilarates; —invigorates; -— limbers; —quickens; refreshes; —regen¬erates ; —relaxes; -—relieves; —soothes; '—smooths; —ungnarls.

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

Etymology
1580, from massacre: from  macacre: from  mazacrium: "massacre, slaughter, killing", also "the head of a newly killed stag", of  origin, from  *undefined: "to massacre" (compare  metzeln: "to massacre"), frequentive of matsken: from  from. Akin to meizan:,  matsen:, dialectal  metzgern: "to butcher, kill",  metzgen:, Metzger:, Metzelei:,  𐌼𐌰𐌹𐍄𐌰𐌽:. See also French massacrer:.

Pronunciation

 * , {{SAMPA|/"m{s.@.k@(r)/}}

Noun

 * Arabic: مذبحة
 * Bosnian:, ,
 * Catalan: massacre
 * Chinese:, , , ,
 * Croatian:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese: 大虐殺, 虐殺, 惨殺, みなごろし
 * Korean:
 * Latin: trucidatio


 * Lithuanian: žudynės, skerdynės
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish: masakra
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, массовое убийство
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: масакр, покољ , крвопролиће , сеча
 * Roman: masakr, pokolj , krvoproliće , seča
 * Serbo-Croatian: masakr, pokolj, krvoproliće
 * Slovak: masakra
 * Slovene: pokol, masaker
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ఊచకోత (oochakOta)
 * Welsh: llofruddiaeth

Verb

 * Bosnian: masakrirati, poklati, poubijati
 * Czech:
 * Danish: massakrere
 * Finnish: joukkomurhata,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Norwegian: massakrere


 * Portuguese:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: масакрирати, поклати, поубијати
 * Roman: masakrirati, poklati, poubijati
 * Slovene: poklati
 * Spanish:

Anagrams

 * sacrâmes
 * sarcasme

Noun

 * 1) massacre

Related terms

 * massacrar


 * massacrante