massacres
Wholesale brutal killings
Massacres is the plural of massacre—the deliberate killing of many people, typically defenseless ones.
Historical massacres become proper nouns: the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Boston Massacre.
The verb massacres means slaughters: The army massacres civilians.
Informally, to massacre is to defeat decisively or to botch badly: The band massacres that song every time they play it.
Systematic annihilation of a people
- HolocaustNazi genocide of Jews
- NanjingEastern Chinese metropolis
- RwandaEast-Central African nation
- ArmeniaCaucasian republic, capital Yerevan
Trail of Tears · Wounded Knee · Amritsar · Tiananmen · Tulsa · memorials · commemoration · remembrance
Killing for meat
- carnageWidespread violent death
- bloodshedKilling and wounding
- killingsActs causing death
- butcherySavage killing
bloodbath · atrocities · mass murder · executions · extermination · annihilation · death toll · victims
Selective population reduction
- poachingUnlawful wildlife capture
- huntingPursuing wild game
- slaughterKilling for meat
- ivoryTusk-derived material
whaling · sealing · extermination · endangered · extinction · herds · population · conservation
Victory over another
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
blowout · drubbing · walloping · trouncing · humiliation · landslide · domination · shutout
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
Armenia · Trail of Tears · Wounded Knee · Amritsar · Tiananmen · Tulsa · memorials · commemoration · remembrance · documentation
slaughter
Killing for meat
butchery · bloodbath · atrocities · mass murder · executions · extermination · annihilation · death toll · victims · casualties
culling
Selective population reduction
ivory · whaling · sealing · extermination · endangered · extinction · herds · population · conservation · illegal
defeat
Victory over another
- thrashingDecisive, lopsided defeat
- routOverwhelming one-sided victory
- demolitionDeliberate structural destruction
crushing · blowout · drubbing · walloping · trouncing · humiliation · landslide · domination · shutout · embarrassment
- Armenian HistoryArmenia, Armenians, Etchmiadzin, Armenian Genocide, Yerevan
- oppressionoppression, tyranny, racism, repression, secret police
- repressionsecret police, mass arrests, torture, disappearances, detention camps
- ethnic conflictethnic cleansing, ethnic conflict, ethnic tension, ethnic tensions, ethnic violence
- Uganda HistoryIdi Amin, Kampala, Entebbe, 1962, colonial rule
- conflictclash, fight, war, battle, dispute
massacresduels
Arranged one-on-one fights
pitched battles · mutual combat · standoffs · contests · bears
massacresrescues
Frees from danger
salvations · liberations · deliverances · evacuations · emancipations
massacresmercies
Acts of forgiveness
pardons · amnesties · clemencies · humanitarian aid · relief efforts
- Boston Massacre1770 deadly colonial confrontation
- Texas Chainsaw MassacreSlasher horror franchise
- Wounded Knee Massacre1890 military killing of Lakota
- Nanking Massacre1937 mass atrocity against Chinese civilians
- September MassacresRevolutionary tribunal mob killings
- Saturday Night Massacre1973 Watergate-era firings