Synonyms 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

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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. internecion

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1. massacreverb

   Synonyms:
   butcher (human beings), murder, kill, slay, slaughter

2. massacrenoun

   Synonyms:
   butchery, slaughter, carnage

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1. massacrenoun

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

2. massacreverb

   Synonyms:
   butcher, slaughter

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1. List of paraphrases for "massacre":

   slaughter, carnage, killing, bloodbath, pokol, massacres, holocaust, butchery, bloodletting, genocide

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

1. massacre

   Synonyms:
   Mass murder, see there
   

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1. Juana Mejias:

   The situation is complex and a true 'massacre' that they have carried out by dismissing 50 percent of the workforce.

2. Scott Jr.:

   Many people were not at their homes, if they were, it would have been a massacre.

3. Tai Wong:

   The big jump in consumer confidence coupled with the recovery in stocks has gold dipping to $1,135 near the key $1,130 pivot, from which gold fell to lows of the move on the Sunday Night Massacre and subsequently regained last week.

4. Khin Maung Zaw:

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

5. Prosecutor George Brauchler:

   He made a decision to massacre, and he did, twelve dead from the community. Can anything outweigh that? No. No.