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.
massacres
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pluralof massacre.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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present tense formof massacre (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
massacrenounthe unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
Example Sentences
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“There were massacres against Indigenous communities, they were forced to have one religion,” Sheinbaum said last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
According to the UN, around 115,000 people have entered Lebanon from Syria since the fall of Assad, many of them since the sectarian massacres that targeted the Alawite minority on the Syrian coast in March.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
The man in the tub is the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist and physician who had incited a series of judicial massacres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
No one really believes Mr. Museveni is a Good Guy, however much he may have opened up Uganda to—gasp!—“international capital,” a worse sin, in Mr. Mamdani’s eyes, than any of the massacres Amin committed.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025
He gestures to complex problems facing the new country but focuses on the 1966 massacres.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
