English > massacre: 2 senses > noun 1, act| Meaning | The savage and excessive killing of many people. |
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| Synonyms | slaughter, mass murder, carnage, butchery |
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| Instances | Alamo | A siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836 |
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| Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand | A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry / cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876) |
| Narrower | bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue | indiscriminate slaughter |
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| Broader | murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
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| Spanish | carnaje, carnicería, masacre, matanza, mortandad |
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| Catalan | carnatge, carnisseria, massacre, matança |
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| Verbs | massacre | kill a large number of people indiscriminately |
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