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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Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
That includes the surveillance video taken from Robb Elementary soon after the massacre, which the school district says is the only copy.
—Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
The Polish government considers the Volhynia and Galicia massacres a genocide, and holds Bandera equal in infamy to Nazi war criminals of the same era.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
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Noun
Massacre followed massacre, until Narváez’s men arrived at the last unconquered village, Caonao.
—Greg Grandin
september 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025
That includes the surveillance video taken from Robb Elementary soon after the massacre, which the school district says is the only copy.
—Shimon Prokupecz, CNN Money, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
Finally, the 2025 list massacred the stable of eligible plug-in hybrids.
—PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
The Polish government considers the Volhynia and Galicia massacres a genocide, and holds Bandera equal in infamy to Nazi war criminals of the same era.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 25 Aug. 2025
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slaughter
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Matt Jones and Christina Long discuss whats next for Arkansas football after the Notre Dame slaughter on Saturday.—
Christina Long,
Arkansas Online,
29 Sep. 2025
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The 1994 slaughter of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in Rwanda became the paradigmatic example, prosecuted at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and recognized by the UN Security Council.—
Faisal Kutty,
MSNBC Newsweek,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Massacre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massacre. Accessed 1 Oct. 2025.
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