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What (who) is MASSACRING - definition
Massacring
INCIDENT WHERE SOME GROUP IS KILLED BY ANOTHER
Massacres; Masscred; Masacre; Massacred; Masacres; Massakre; Massacring; Fractal massacre
·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Massacre.
massacre
INCIDENT WHERE SOME GROUP IS KILLED BY ANOTHER
Massacres; Masscred; Masacre; Massacred; Masacres; Massakre; Massacring; Fractal massacre
I. v. a.
Butcher (human beings), murder, kill, slay, slaughter.
II. n.
Butchery, slaughter, carnage.
massacre
INCIDENT WHERE SOME GROUP IS KILLED BY ANOTHER
Massacres; Masscred; Masacre; Massacred; Masacres; Massakre; Massacring; Fractal massacre
(massacres, massacring, massacred)
1.
A massacre is the killing of a large number of people at the same time in a violent and cruel way.
Maria lost her 62-year-old mother in the massacre.
...reports of massacre, torture and starvation.
N-VAR
2.
If people are massacred, a large number of them are attacked and killed in a violent and cruel way.
300 civilians are believed to have been massacred by the rebels...
Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population.
VERB: be V-ed, V n
Examples of use of MASSACRING
1. Their fighters are notorious for massacring civilians, mutilating survivors and abducting more than 20,000 children.
2. He also accused Ethiopian troops of massacring 50 civilians in the central town of Cadado.
3. The Assyrians, whether massacring or hunting, use chariots, but they also ride horses.
4. Residents contacted by telephone told of gunmen systematically rounding up and massacring Sunni men.
5. Just minutes earlier, Raviraj had appeared on television accusing government troops of massacring Tamil civilians.