massacre
noun
the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
had massacred
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past perfectof massacre.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Twenty years passed, and Ezekiel was vouchsafed the vision in which God bade him repair to the Valley of Dura, where Nebuchadnezzar had set up his idol, and had massacred the host of the Jews.
From The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 by Paul Radin
They had massacred his beautiful play, and, doing so, had not even made a success of it by their own sordid commercial lights.
From The Little Warrior by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
They had massacred his beautiful play and, doing so had not even made a success of it by their own sordid commercial lights.
From Jill the Reckless by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
The only people who had injured Gunther in Hungary were the Huns who had massacred the yeomen, and these were not present in the hall.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Mr. Peasley said that if there was anything in the transmigration theory, he figured that he had massacred a regiment of soldiers, several boards of directors, a high school and an insane asylum.
From In Pastures New by George Ade
