| 单词 | massacre |
| 释义 | massacre (once / 477 pages) nv A massacre is a big bloody mess of killing, and usually for no good reason. Not that there’s ever a good reason for killing, but massacres are especially pointless and gory. It’s unclear where the word massacre came from, but possibly it was the Old French word macacre, which means “slaughterhouse.” As a noun, massacre is a brutal slaughter of humans or animals, and it can be a verb as well, like when an army massacres an entire village of innocent people. Pronounce it like MASS-uh-ker, and remember to spell it with an acre at the end, which is how much land is needed to bury the bodies after a massacre. WORD FAMILYmassacre: massacred, massacreed, massacres, massacring USAGE EXAMPLESTestimony in the case opened and closed with two of the massacre’s survivors. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) “This is the biggest prison massacre in our state’s history,” Fontes said during a press conference. Time(Jan 02, 2017) Officials on Sunday called the nightclub attack a “massacre” and an act of terrorism. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the savage and excessive killing of many people Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper butchery, carnage, mass murder, slaughter Alamo a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed indiscriminate slaughter execution, murder, slaying unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being 2v kill a large number of people indiscriminately The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda Syn|Hyper mow down, slaughter kill cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly |
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