Massacres Synonyms and Antonyms

Kill a large number of people indiscriminately
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. slaughters
  2. decimates
  3. butchers
  4. slays
  5. annihilates
  6. murders
  7. exterminates
Antonyms:
  1. creates
The savage and excessive killing of many people
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. slaughters
  2. killings
  3. butcheries
The act of defeating or the condition of being defeated
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. routs
  2. overthrows
  3. defeats
  4. lickings
  5. whippings
  6. trimmings
  7. thrashings
  8. beatings

Words Related to Massacres

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Massacres Sentence Examples

  • In 1096 massacres of Jews occurred in many cities of the Rhineland.

  • I want to be happy and not worry about creatures trying to kill me or how often I'll be wandering into one of your massacres!

  • He was present at the September massacres and saved several prisoners, and on the 7th of September 1792 was elected one of the deputies from Paris to the convention, where he was one of the promoters of the proclamation of the republic. He suppressed the decoration of the Cross of St Louis, which he called a stain on a man's coat, and demanded the sale of the palace of Versailles.

  • When Roland heard of his wife's condemnation, he wandered some miles from his refuge in Rouen; maddened by despair and grief, he wrote a few words expressive of his horror at those massacres which could only be inspired by the enemies of France, protesting that "from the moment when I learned that they had murdered my wife I would no longer remain in a world stained with enemies."

  • In 1894 a more serious rebellion in the mountainous region of Sassun was ruthlessly stamped out; the Powers insistently demanded reforms, the eventual grant of which in the autumn of 1895 was the signal for a series of massacres, brought on in part by the injudicious and threatening acts of the victims, and extending over many months and throughout Asia Minor, as well as in the capital itself.

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