as in slaughter
the killing of a large number of people
the infamous massacre of more than 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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as in to slaughter
to kill on a large scale
the country's rival ethnic groups began massacring one another
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Recent Examples of massacre
Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
In 1947, didn’t the membership list of the MDRM party (Democratic Movement for Malagasy Restoration) become the list of activists to massacre?
—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
Ychmuth Corneille, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
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Noun
The massacre was instantly infamous — as much a source of horror as of horrified fascination by the public.
—Susan Young, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
In 1947, didn’t the membership list of the MDRM party (Democratic Movement for Malagasy Restoration) become the list of activists to massacre?
—Literary Hub, 9 Oct. 2025
Verb
In a statement following an attack days earlier where gunmen massacred at least 40 people in the rural fishing village of Labordrie, just north of the capital, Amnesty International called on Haitian authorities to take action to protect the population.
—Ychmuth Corneille, Miami Herald, 21 Sep. 2025
The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for massacre
slaughter
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Language purists like to remind anyone who will listen that decimation actually means the slaughter of one in ten people, and was the military punishment wielded by the Roman army against deserters and mutineers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Some will welcome it; there is certainly an argument that the attempts to imitate Guardiola’s style, playing from the back against high-class opponents with a plan to press them into mistakes, led to some coaches leading their teams like lambs to the slaughter.—
Oliver Kay,
New York Times,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Massacre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massacre. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.
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