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.
have massacred
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present perfectof massacre.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Since you have massacred all the bears," said Iglesias, "I will go lay me down in their lair in the barn.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
The argument for tracing back the great conspiracy to the discontented rajahs is—that otherwise, and supposing the mutiny raised for objects specially affecting the sepoys, they would not have massacred their officers.
From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by James Hogg
Professional fishermen have fished for the market, sawmills have been allowed to empty their sawdust into the rivers, and probably alien miners and others have massacred wholesale with dynamite.
From Fishing in British Columbia With a Chapter on Tuna Fishing at Santa Catalina by Thomas Wilson Lambert
How old Landor, who "gushed" from cradle to grave, would have massacred and rended in his wrath such talkers!
From What I Remember, Volume 2 by Thomas Adolphus Trollope
