as in slaughter
the killing of a large number of people
the infamous massacre of more than 200 Sioux at Wounded Knee, South Dakota
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as in to slaughter
to kill on a large scale
the country's rival ethnic groups began massacring one another
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Recent Examples of massacre
Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
Raphael is a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova Festival massacre in Israel, which was part of a surprise attack in which Hamas raiders murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 men, women and children.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2025
Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, Steven Parent, Abigail Folger and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were massacred by the family in a string of killings.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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Noun
The kind now best distilled into a fictional massacre in a galaxy far, far away.
—Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2025
Raphael is a survivor of the Oct. 7, 2023 Nova Festival massacre in Israel, which was part of a surprise attack in which Hamas raiders murdered more than 1,200 Israelis and kidnapped 250 men, women and children.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 13 May 2025
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October 2024—Tunnel Construction Camp Attack: In another incident, 7 people were massacred at a tunnel construction site in Ganderbal district of Kashmir.
—Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
Pregnant actress Sharon Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, Jay Sebring, Steven Parent, Abigail Folger and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were massacred by the family in a string of killings.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 5 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for massacre
slaughter
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Criticism over big business moves In the decades that followed, Ramaphosa went from a union leader to a corporate board member implicated in stoking the slaughter of striking workers.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
23 May 2025
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He was made to watch what Trump took to be evidence that the South African government was presiding over the slaughter of white Afrikaners.—
Jonny Steinberg,
Time,
22 May 2025
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“Massacre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massacre. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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