mass murder
Slaughter of many
Mass murder is the killing of multiple people in a single incident or short period.
The term typically applies when four or more victims die, often in a public setting: The shooting was the deadliest mass murder in the state's history.
Mass murder differs from serial killing, which involves separate incidents over time.
A mass murderer is one who commits such an act.
- genocideSystematic annihilation of a people
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- slaughterKilling for meat
- ethnic cleansingSystematic removal of populations
- exterminationComplete destruction of a group
atrocity · war crime · pogrom · Holocaust · never again · bloodbath · Armenian Genocide · carnage · death squad · crime against humanity · annihilation · butchery · body count · Rwandan Genocide · terrorism · death toll · serial killing · xenophobia
- killingshomicide, manslaughter, killing, assassination, voluntary manslaughter
- carnagebloodshed, bloodbath, massacre, slaughter, butchery
- homicidehomicide, homicide rate, homicide rates, manslaughter, killing
- homicide lawhomicide, manslaughter, voluntary manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, justifiable homicide
- murderhomicide, manslaughter, assassination, serial killing, contract killing
- persecutionHolocaust, pogrom, genocide, pogroms, ethnic cleansing
mass murdermass evacuation
Organized large-scale departure
lifesaving · epidemic prevention · famine relief · humanitarian aid · vaccination campaign
mass murderuniversal harmony
Total alignment of everything
peaceful coexistence · reconciliation · peacemaking · disarmament · armistice