Synonyms of massacres

massacres 1 of 2

noun

plural of massacre

as in slaughters

the killing of a large number of people

the infamous massacre of more than 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slaughters
• deaths
• genocides
• bloodbaths
• holocausts
• carnages
• murders
• butcheries
• killings
• slayings
• exterminations
• manslaughters
• homicides
• devastations
• assassinations
• pogroms
• executions
• mortalities
• destructions
• annihilations
• bloodsheds
• bloodlettings
• foul play
• decimations
• eradications

massacres

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of massacre

as in murders

to kill on a large scale

the country's rival ethnic groups began massacring one another

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slaughters
• murders
• dispatches
• slays
• executes
• destroys
• assassinates
• butchers
• mows (down)
• smites
• wipes out
• eradicates
• demolishes
• fells
• snuffs
• wastes
• annihilates
• exterminates
• does in
• devastates
• decimates
• croaks
• blots out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of massacres

Noun

Two of the massacres happened in the space of a few hours late Saturday night and in the predawn hours of Sunday. — ABC News, 27 Sep. 2026

The wars, weddings, births, massacres, famines, our triumphs, our defeats, our past. — Rafael Motamayor, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2026

So please do not celebrate Palestinian steadfastness as though we were placed on this earth to provide inspiring images of survival between massacres. — Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2026

But aid workers in Haiti say that large outbreaks of gang violence, particularly massacres like the one in Kenscoff, a community in the hills above Port-au-Prince, are not uncommon. — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 9 Sep. 2026

In his reports, there is both disbelief and bitter acceptance of the massacres of Ukraine’s Jewish population. — Nick Holdstock, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Backstabbing, scheming, secret children showing up to cause trouble, brainwashing, amnesia, terrorist massacres at weddings, and shoulder pads… so, so many shoulder pads. — Maggie Fremont, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Aug. 2026

In 2022, an ex-policeman armed with a gun and knife stormed into a nursery in the country's north and murdered 24 children and 12 adults in one of Thailand's deadliest massacres. — CBS News, 7 Aug. 2026

Although scarce documentation has left a wide range of estimates, as many as 2 million people are said to have been slaughtered in communal massacres during this exodus. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026

Verb

The transition to the climax, when Odysseus massacres his wife’s suitors with the help of Athena’s magic and son Telemachus (Alan Stenson), is also fairly rushed. — Elaina Patton, IndieWire, 24 July 2026

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