Dictionary Entry
massacre
massacre is a 8-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 5 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.
- 2noun
Murder.
- 3noun
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.
- 4noun
the savage and excessive killing of many people
- 5verb
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
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