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 then lamented their fatal rashness, forgot the severity of the emperor, whom they had massacred, and hastened to perpetuate, by an honorable monument, the memory of his virtues and victories.
From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 by Henry Hart Milman
"But what a gross misrepresentation of facts it was to say that you had massacred the natives," cried Phyllis indignantly.
From Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore
Cato insisted that Caesar had massacred a defenceless people in a time of truce, that he had broken the law of nations, and that he ought to be given up to the Germans.
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
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
