Word Meaning

Meaning of "massacre" and the crossword clue

- Annihilation
- Brutal slaughter of many people
- Bulk unit of land required for butchery
- Carnage
- General slaughter
- Wholesale killing
- 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.
- Murder.
- 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.