Synonyms:
slaughter, massacre, mass_murder, carnage, butchery
Meaning: the savage and excessive killing of many people
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
massacre, slaughter, mow_down
Meaning: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
Usage examples
He made a convulsive frontal attack upon the hobgoblin--and the massacre began.
On the way to the vessel some of the Overlanders had narrowly escaped a massacre.
I was a little over four years old at the time of the "Sioux massacre" in Minnesota.
The summer after the "Minnesota massacre," General Sibley pursued our people across this river.
Then two Mensheviki Internationalists, declaring that the Appeal of the Bolshevik Councillors was a direct incitement to massacre.
They will massacre us!" they cried, for many of them had given their word at the Winter Palace not to take up arms against the People.
If Peter Rugg, thought I, has been travelling since the Boston Massacre, there is no reason why he should not travel to the end of time.
Was it battle and massacre that ended that long afternoon here? Or did the woods catch fire some exceptionally dry summer, leaving black hills and famine?
The second winter after the massacre, my father and my two older brothers, with several others, were betrayed by a half-breed at Winnipeg to the United States authorities.
And so angry and energetic was the little man that in a brief space the melon patch was a scene of awful devastation, and the surrey contained all the fruit that survived the massacre.