A massacre is a big bloody mess of killing, and usually for no good reason. Not that there’s ever a good reason for killing, but massacres are especially pointless and gory.
The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people;
Noun
the savage and excessive killing of many people
Verb
kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
n.
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.
n.
Murder.
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.
Massacre
I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family.
If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries.
Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable !
Massacre
If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian had massacred the Theban legion.
The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people;
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.
Usage Examples
The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.
War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.
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