massacre

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  1. noun The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
  2. noun The slaughter of a large number of animals.
  3. noun Informal A severe defeat, as in a sports event.
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  • Mitchell subsequently stated that this massacre was the result of intercourse or interference with native women, but this must have been mere speculation as no witness of the tragedy survived. —  Thomas Mitchell
  • Reportedly, the perpetrator of the massacre was a Vietnamese immigrant which could mean that he has ties to Jemaah Islamiyah, the southeast Asian terrorist group known to have ties with al-Qaeda and, by extension, the Taliban. —  Interested-Participant
  • The discovery of the massacre was accouned by Profepa, the government's environmental protection agency. —  Mongabay.com News
  • But in a 2005 ruling an Italian military tribunal determined that the massacre was a premeditated plan by the Germans, and was in no way provoked by the partisans. —  TIME.com: Top Stories
  • The notion that this massacre is about the threat of the rockets is a joke. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Digg
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  1. French, from Old French macecle, macecre, butchery, shambles.

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  1. from French massacre (Middle Latin mazacrium), massacre, killing, also the head of a stag newly killed; apparently of Teutonic origin, and prob. from Low German matsken, matzgen, cut, hew, = Dutch matsen, maul, kill, = German metzen, cut, kill, later metzelei, massacre: see mason.
  2. from massacre, n.
 

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