Synonyms of massacred

massacred

verb

past tense of massacre

as in slaughtered

to kill on a large scale

the country's rival ethnic groups began massacring one another

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slaughtered
• murdered
• assassinated
• destroyed
• executed
• dispatched
• butchered
• slew
• exterminated
• mowed (down)
• decimated
• smote
• demolished
• eradicated
• wiped out
• felled
• annihilated
• devastated
• wasted
• snuffed
• did in
• croaked
• blotted out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of massacred

In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA. — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026

Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town. — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 June 2026

Iran’s security services massacred protesters on a historic scale just weeks before Israel and the United States plunged the country into conflict. — Laura Secor, The Atlantic, 16 June 2026

Set in the tumultuous 1880s American frontier, The Magnificent Seven follows seven gifted but flawed mercenaries hired to protect a peaceful Quaker village after it is massacred by mercenaries working for a ruthless land baron trying to seize their land. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 9 June 2026

Retroactively, they were interpreted as premonitions of the 1994 violence that saw many thousands of locals, primarily Tutsis, massacred at the hands of Hutu Génocidaires. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 26 May 2026

The ethnic Hutu business tycoon was indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly arming Hutu militias that massacred more than 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis in 1994. — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 16 May 2026

In the 1980s and 1990s, Maoist insurgents planted car bombs and massacred tens of thousands of civilians. — Antonia Mufarech, Bloomberg, 15 May 2026