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verb [ T ] uk / ˈmæs.ə.kə r/ us / ˈmæs.ə.kɚ / to kill many people in a short period of time: Hundreds of civilians were massacred in the raid. informal. to defeat an opponent very badly in a competition or election: England was massacred 5–0 by France in the semifinal. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Le Massacre de Scio ("The Chios massacre") a painting (1824) by Eugène Delacroix depicting the massacre of Greeks on the island of Chios by Ottoman troops during the Greek War of Independence in 1822. A massacre is an event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless.
A massacre is the deliberate slaughter of members of one group by one or more members of another more powerful group. A massacre may be indiscriminate or highly methodical in application. A massacre is a single event, though it may occur during the course of an extended military campaign or war.
The meaning of MASSACRE is the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty. How to use massacre in a sentence.
noun. the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder. Synonyms: extermination, genocide, butchery, carnage. a general slaughter, as of persons or animals: the massacre of millions during the war.
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people at the same time in a violent and cruel way. Maria lost her 62-year-old mother in the massacre. ...reports of massacre, torture and starvation.
A massacre is a big bloody mess of killing, and usually for no good reason. Not that there’s ever a good reason for killing, but massacres are especially pointless and gory. It’s unclear where the word massacre came from, but possibly it was the Old French word macacre, which means “slaughterhouse.”
noun. /ˈmæsəkə (r)/ /ˈmæsəkər/ [countable, uncountable] the killing of a large number of people especially in a cruel way. the bloody massacre of innocent civilians. Nobody survived the massacre. Extra Examples. Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Take your English to the next level.
For the first time since 2016, two new mass killing episodes began in 2021, according to the latest review by the Early Warning Project. There is a historically high number of ongoing mass killings: 21 separate episodes as of the end of 2021, perpetrated by 12 states and nine nonstate groups, in 15 countries.
MASSACRE meaning: 1 : the violent killing of many people; 2 : a game or competition in which one person or team easily defeats another.
