Antonyms for massacre
ˈmæs ə kərmas·sacre

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1. massacrenoun

   Synonyms:
   slaughter, butchery, carnage

2. massacrenoun

   To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter - limited to the killing of human beings.

   Synonyms:
   butchery, slaughter, carnage

3. massacrenoun

   Murder.

   Synonyms:
   carnage, slaughter, butchery

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 2 votes

1. massacre

   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. Havoc may not be so complete as massacre, nor so coldly brutal as butchery, but is more widely spread and furious; it is destruction let loose, and may be applied to organizations, interests, etc., as well as to human life; "as for Saul, he made havoc of the church," Acts viii, 3. Carnage (Latin caro, carnis, flesh) refers to widely scattered or heaped up corpses of the slain; slaughter is similar in meaning, but refers more to the process, as carnage does to the result; these two words only of the group may be used of great destruction of life in open and honorable battle, as when we say the enemy was repulsed with great slaughter, or the carnage was terrible.

   Synonyms:
   butchery, carnage, havoc, slaughter

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcheryverb

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, shambles, slaughter

2. massacre, slaughter, mow downverb

   kill a large number of people indiscriminately

   "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

   Synonyms:
   butcher, mow down, slaughter

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1. massacrenoun

   Synonyms:
   carnage, butchery (of human beings), slaughter, havoc

2. massacreverb

   Synonyms:
   butcher, slaughter

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MDRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. massacre

   Synonyms:
   Mass murder, see there
   

How to use massacre in a sentence?

1. Luisa Ortega:

   We're convinced, after a technically and scientifically rigorous investigation, that in total 21 people disappeared, we are still determining the motive ... of this massacre.

2. Kendra Miller:

   I was set to get married one week after the massacre.

3. Aung Myo:

   In the past three months, there has been an increasing number of civilians killed. The number of mass killings committed by the military has increased and… the military has been using more forms of violence against the people, the casualties in this massacre… it’s very clear that they are civilians (and) not involved in any kind of opposition movement against the military.

4. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine:

   This is an old-fashioned, cold-blooded, calculated massacre of eight human beings.

5. Bruno Vekaric:

   This is the first such case involving people directly suspected of taking part in the Srebrenica massacre, there are other suspects in Serbia and neighboring countries and we are after them as well.

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