MASSACRE
\mˈasəkə], \mˈasəkə], \m_ˈa_s_ə_k_ə]\
Definitions of MASSACRE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; - limited to the killing of human beings.
By Oddity Software
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To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; - limited to the killing of human beings.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Indiscriminate killing or slaughter, esp. with cruelty: carnage.
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To kill with violence and cruelty: to slaughter.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The indiscriminate slaughter of human beings; butchery.
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To put human beings to death without the forms of law or on insufficient grounds; to slaughter indiscriminately; to butcher human beings.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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n. [German] The killing of human beings by indiscriminate slaughter; cold-blooded destruction of life.
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