massacred

past tense of massacre

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Recent Examples of massacred Principals told to stop calling police chief There was so much chaos in the minutes after the gunman entered the classrooms and massacred the children and teachers inside that school police chief Arredondo called the district’s communication chief for help. Matthew J. Friedman, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2025 Finally, the 2025 list massacred the stable of eligible plug-in hybrids. PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025 In Iași alone over a three-day period in June 1941, more than 13,000 Jews — more than a third of the city’s Jewish population — were massacred, marking one of the worst pogroms of World War II. Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 After Hamas massacred some 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, the Israeli settler right converged on a plan. Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025 Ancestors from his paternal side survived the Sand Creek Massacre, while many of his ancestors from his maternal side were mutilated and massacred there; and at other genocidal campaigns that followed. Phillip Whiteman Jr., The Denver Post, 23 Mar. 2025 Amato massacred his family after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from his family to fund an online relationship with a Bulgarian cam model, according to court records. Chris Spargo, People.com, 18 Mar. 2025 Just days prior, Julani’s forces massacred between 800 and 2,000 Alawite and Christian civilians during a brutal crackdown on anti-government partisans along the coast. Brady Knox, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 11 Mar. 2025 Tallahassee After 17 students and teachers were massacred in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, their families begged Florida lawmakers for change. Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massacred
slaughtered
Verb
  • The Great War, however, turned death into something sudden, cruel and unknowable, as young men—often barely into adulthood—were slaughtered on the front line, their deaths reported to their families days or weeks later.
    Alice Vernon September 8, Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025
  • That’s why he got slaughtered in the election.
    ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2025

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