massacre
noun
[ ˈmasəkə ]
• an indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of many people.
• "the attack was described as a cold-blooded massacre"
Similar:
slaughter,
wholesale slaughter,
mass slaughter,
wholesale killing,
indiscriminate killing,
murder,
murdering,
mass murder,
mass homicide,
execution,
mass execution,
destruction,
mass destruction,
annihilation,
extermination,
liquidation,
decimation,
carnage,
butchery,
bloodbath,
bloodletting,
pogrom,
genocide,
ethnic cleansing,
holocaust,
Shoah,
night of the long knives,
slaying,
battue,
hecatomb,
massacre
verb
• deliberately and brutally kill (many people).
• "thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers"
Similar:
slaughter,
butcher,
murder,
kill,
annihilate,
exterminate,
execute,
liquidate,
eliminate,
destroy,
decimate,
kill off,
wipe out,
mow down,
cut down,
cut to pieces,
put to the sword,
put to death,
send to the gas chambers,
slay,
Origin:
late 16th century: from French, of unknown origin.
