HyperDic: mass_murder

English > 1 sense of the expression mass murder:
NOUNactmass murder, slaughter, massacre, carnage, butcherythe savage and excessive killing of many people
English > mass murder: 1 sense > noun 1, act
MeaningThe savage and excessive killing of many people.
Synonymsslaughter, massacre, carnage, butchery
InstancesAlamoA siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836
Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last StandA battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry / cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876)
Narrowerbloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battueindiscriminate slaughter
Broadermurder, slaying, executionunlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
Spanishcarnaje, carnicería, masacre, matanza, mortandad
Catalancarnatge, carnisseria, massacre, matança

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