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Antonyms for massacre
ˈmæs ə kərmas·sacre

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Wiktionary2.6 / 5 votes

  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 Antonyms1.0 / 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 WordNet0.0 / 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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words3.0 / 1 vote

  1. massacrenoun

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

  2. massacreverb

    Synonyms:
    butcher, slaughter

Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD5.0 / 1 vote

  1. massacre

    Synonyms:
    Mass murder, see there

How to use massacre in a sentence?

  1. 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.

  2. Khin Maung Zaw:

    The police planted the documents on Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo so their investigation of the massacre would be stopped.

  3. Jackie Speier:

    It would be a Saturday massacre – worse than that, without a doubt there will be an impeachment effort.

  4. Jimmy Cherizier:

    I would never massacre people in the same social class as me.

  5. Antony Blinken:

    The footage of this massacre, coupled with the ongoing killing and abuse of countless Syrians, serves as a sobering reminder for why countries should not normalize relations with the Assad regime absent enduring progress towards a political resolution, the United States calls on the Assad regime to cease all violations and abuses of human rights, including but not limited to extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, and torture.

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