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Noun massacre has 1 sense
  1. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people
    --1 is a kind of murder, slaying, execution
    --1 has particulars:
     bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue; Alamo; Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand
    Derived form: verb massacre1
,Verb massacre has 1 sense
  1. massacre, slaughter, mow down - kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
    --1 is one way to kill
    Derived form: noun massacre1
    Sample sentence:
    They want to massacre the prisoners
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