Synonyms of the word massacre


MASSACREBUTCHERY - CARNAGE - EXECUTION - KILL - MURDER - SLAUGHTER - SLAYING

massacre

  • n. The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be…
  • n. (obsolete) Murder.
  • n. (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
  • v. (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate…
  • v. (figuratively) To win so decisively it is in the manner of so slaughtering one's opponent.
  • v. (figuratively) To give a performance so poorly it is in the manner of so slaughtering the musical piece,…

butchery

  • n. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
  • n. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
  • n. The butchering of meat.
  • n. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
  • n. A meat market.
  • n. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.

carnage

  • n. Death and destruction.
  • n. What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
  • n. (figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.

execution

  • n. The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
  • n. The state of being executed (accomplished).
  • n. The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
  • n. (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
  • n. (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
  • n. (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

kill

  • v. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
  • v. (transitive) To render inoperative.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.
  • v. (transitive) To use up or to waste.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.
  • v. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
  • v. (intransitive, informal) To produce intense pain.
  • v. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
  • v. (transitive, sports) To strike a ball or similar object with such force and placement as to make a shot…
  • v. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
  • v. (mathematics, transitive, idiomatic, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
  • v. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
  • n. The act of killing.
  • n. Specifically, the death blow.
  • n. The result of killing; that which has been killed.
  • n. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
  • n. A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.
  • n. A kiln.

murder

  • n. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
  • n. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
  • n. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets…
  • n. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
  • n. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
  • v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
  • v. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
  • v. To botch or mangle.
  • v. (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
  • v. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

slaughter

  • n. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
  • n. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
  • n. A rout or decisive defeat.
  • v. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.
  • v. (transitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
  • v. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner.

slaying

  • n. Killing, especially murder of a human.
  • v. present participle of slay.

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