Crossword clues for massacre
massacre
- Lopsided victory
- One-sided contest
- Total drubbing
- Indiscriminate slaughter
- Wanton slaughter
- Valentine's Day event
- Heavy defeat
- Boston event
- Blowout on the court
- Sports romp
- Silverchair "Pure ___"
- Murder (of many persons)
- Lopsided ballgame, as it were
- Infamous Valentine's Day event
- Church service's unit of measurement?
- Beat 72-3, say
- Wipeout
- Hardly a close win
- Wipe out
- The wanton killing of many people
- Boston event: March 5, 1770
- Total wipeout
- "___ in Rome," Burton film
- Sports rout
- Mother's daughter flees religious slaughter
- Mass murder
- Service winner overcomes resistance in overwhelming victory
- Butcher is writing out MA in full
- Brutal slaughter
- Hiding, maybe, in service area
- Defeat large number on a piece of land
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Massacre \Mas"sa*cre\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Massacred; p. pr. & vb. n. Massacring.] [Cf. F. massacrer. See Massacre, n.] 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.
If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as
Maximian had massacred the Theban legion.
--Macaulay.
Massacre \Mas"sa*cre\, n. [F., fr. LL. mazacrium; cf. Prov. G. metzgern, metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to cut, hew, OHG. meizan to cut, Goth. m['a]itan.]
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; the St. Valentine's Day massacre; the Amritsar massacre; the Wounded Knee massacre.
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Murder. [Obs.]
--Shak.Syn: Massacre, Butchery, Carnage.
Usage: Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who can not make resistance, or much resistance. Butchery refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts. Carnage points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain.
I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family.
--Shak.If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries.
--Shak.Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable!
--Milton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Middle French massacrer "to slaughter" (16c.), from massacre (n.) "wholesale slaughter, carnage" (see massacre (n.)). Related: Massacred; massacring.
1580s, from Middle French massacre "wholesale slaughter, carnage," from Old French macacre, macecle "slaughterhouse, butchery," of unknown origin; perhaps related to Latin macellum "provisions store, butcher shop."
Wiktionary
n. 1 The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the norms of civilized people. 2 (context obsolete English) Murder. 3 (context figuratively English) An overwhelming defeat. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the norms of civilized people; to butcher; to slaughter. (qualifier: Often limited to the killing of human beings.) 2 (context figuratively English) To bring an opponent to a decisive defeat. 3 (context figuratively English) To perform a song, play, etc. poorly.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A massacre is an event with a heavy death toll.
Massacre may also refer to:
Massacre was an American death metal band. They were formed in 1984 by Allen West, Bill Andrews, Rick Rozz, and Terry Butler, and soon after vocalist Kam Lee joined. The band has reunited several times with varying line-ups, most recently in late 2011.
Massacre was originally founded in 1980 in New York City by guitarist Fred Frith, bassist Bill Laswell and drummer Fred Maher as an improvising and experimental rock band. They performed live for just over a year and recorded a studio album, Killing Time (1981). Frith and Laswell reformed Massacre in 1998 with drummer Charles Hayward, and released four more albums, Funny Valentine (1998), Meltdown (2001), Lonely Heart (2007) and Love Me Tender (2013). The last three albums were recorded live, the first in London, and the others at European festivals between 1999 and 2008.
The BBC described Massacre as "an unholy union of The Shadows, Captain Beefheart, Derek Bailey and Funkadelic".
A massacre is a specific incident which involves the killing of people, although not necessarily a crime against humanity.
Massacre is a 1934 American drama film directed by Alan Crosland. The film stars Richard Barthelmess and Ann Dvorak as its Native American protagonists, and also features Charles Middleton, Sidney Toler, Claire Dodd and Clarence Muse.
Massacre is a fictional supervillain in Marvel Comics. He primarily appears in Spider-Man related publications. The character is responsible for the murder of Ashley Kafka, a supporting character in various Spider-Man comic books and adapted media.
Massacre (comics) may refer to:
Massacre is a rock band, skate punk and indie, formed in 1986 in Buenos Aires. It was formed by high school students influenced by bands of the US West Coast, which merged surf punk, hardcore in the late seventies and early eighties. Among his influences, artists like TSOL, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Nirvana, The Cure, R.E.M., The Ramones, T. Rex, Sumo, Gustavo Cerati, Luis Alberto Spinetta, among others. For their attitude based on self-management for over twenty years is considered one of the few bands truly cult of Argentina.
Originally known as Massacre Palestina, the name was changed in 1992, after the attack on the Embassy of Israel, because of the name "Palestina"; not generate controversy.
Usage examples of "massacre".
A tumultuous anarchy of five days was appeased by the inauguration of Ali: his refusal would have provoked a general massacre.
Mormon history, and the noted Mountain Meadow massacre, see Appendices A and B.
Four hundred ballista battleships and over a thousand javelin destroyers converged to form a deadly noose around the planet that had once been inhabited by free humans, before the Honru Massacre.
Militia had had to be called out to put down anti-Chosen rioting when the pictures of the Bassin du Sud massacre came out.
The same courage which obtains the esteem of a civilized enemy provokes the fury of a savage, and the impatient besieger had bound himself by a tremendous oath, that age, and sex, and dignity, should be confounded in a general massacre.
Public opinion at the time fastened on the priests the guilt of the massacre of the Protestant foreigners at Manilla in 1820, and the growing discontent of the people blew into open rebellion in 1823, under a Creole leader, who then rose and attempted to shake off the Spanish authority.
Jealous of her quick recovery from the disasters of the Second Punic war, we tricked her into fighting the Third Punic war and utterly destroyed her, massacring her inhabitants and sowing her fields with salt.
Henry, whether the German army is massacring Jews, I respond that this is a lie.
Niort as they were massacring our people in the villages round, and afterwards obtained from the town the freedom of those who had been cast into prison, and permission for all Huguenots to leave the town?
France should thus dishonour himself, alike by breaking his vows, disregarding his own safe conduct, and massacring those who had accepted his hospitality.
He it was, on the Christian Islands, who, when the Iroquois had proposed a similar parley for the purpose of massacring the Hurons, invited their chiefs into the Huron camp and brained them for their treachery.
The central figure in this massacre is Etienne Masson, the leader of a tribe, for lack of a better word, that controls a large piece of rain forest surrounding Jacmel.
The Turks who were following were driven against the church wall and massacred by the monks and palikars, who now arrived all at once.
It might have been possible for soldiers and diplomats to pose as innocents until the middle of the 1960s, but after that time, and especially after the My Lai massacre of 16 March 1968, when serving veterans reported to their superior officers a number of major atrocities, nobody could reasonably claim to have been uninformed and of those who could, the least believable would be those who - far from the confusion of battle - read and discussed and approved the panoptic reports of the war that were delivered to Washington.
Alexander, when the inhuman Maximin discharged his fury on the favorites and servants of his unfortunate benefactor, a great number of Christians of every rank and of both sexes, were involved in the promiscuous massacre, which, on their account, has improperly received the name of Persecution.