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

The people in Silo 17 were brutally massacred by the members of Silo 1. — Kelly Allen, PEOPLE, 4 Sep. 2026

The latest planeload landed last week, four days after armed gangs massacred dozens of people in the hills above Port-au-Prince. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026

The regime has demonstrated an extreme brutality toward the population, having massacred thousands of unarmed protestors this past January. — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 25 Aug. 2026

Soon after, in January, security forces massacred thousands of Iranian protesters with military-style weapons. — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 24 Aug. 2026

Then one day, Giuliano (now played by an excellent Romeo Perrone) comes home to discover all the animals massacred and his father gone. — Jay Weissberg, Variety, 12 Aug. 2026

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