Synonyms for massacre
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Noun
1. Slaughter — the killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made…
slaughter, carnage, murder, butchery, bloodshed, mass murder, butcher, killing, destruction, kill, slay, decimation
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Definitions
- n. 1
The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Related words
- Is a kind of
- atrocity
Forms
- Plural
- massacres → slaughters, carnages, murders, butcheries…
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A massacre is the indiscriminate killing in numbers of the unresisting or defenseless; butchery is the killing of men rudely and ruthlessly as cattle are killed in the shambles.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- murder You don't have an alibi for the day of the murder.
- slaughter The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.
- carnage Police encountered a scene of unspeakable carnage.
- butchery The bakery is next to the butchery.
By length
- 4 letters
- kill1, slay1
- 6 letters
- murder2
- 7 letters
- killing2, butcher2, carnage2
- 8 letters
- butchery3
- 9 letters
- slaughter2, bloodshed2
- 10 letters
- decimation4
- 11 letters
- destruction3
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (murder2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- massacre