Definitions for massacre

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massacre mas·sa·cre

Spelling: [mas-uh-ker]

IPA: /ˈmæs ə kər/

Massacre is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 288 anagrams from letters in massacre (aacemrss).

Definitions for massacre

noun

1. the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.
2. a general slaughter, as of persons or animals:
3. Informal. a crushing defeat, especially in sports.

verb (used with object)

1. to kill unnecessarily and indiscriminately, especially a large number of persons.
2. Informal. to defeat decisively, especially in sports.

Origin of massacre

1575-85; (noun) Middle French massacre, noun derivative of massacrer, Old French maçacrer, macecler, probably Vulgar Latin *matteūcculāre, verbal derivative of *matteūca mallet (see Examples for massacre

The massacre of his family––his wife and seven children––occurred in June, 1772.

The massacre of more than 100 men, women, and children in Houla?

What often is forgotten—and what Beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.

It would take only an untoward word, a false movement, to start a massacre.

Several Muslim sites in France, including mosques have been attacked or vandalized since the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

At last the door was forced in and the massacre was completed.

The second extends from the peace of Nicias to the massacre of Melos.

The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment.

Whenever he came home drunk, he required a woman to massacre.

Will “loyalty cards” be enough to stave of a Republican massacre of House Democrats on Tuesday?