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massacre English

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What does massacre mean?
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massacre Noun

— A massacre is when many people are killed. This is especially true when those killed appear to be innocent civilians not linked to the war in progress. Very often, the term is also applied if the killings were done in a brutal way. Many people were killed in the during the Vietnam War.

massacre Verb

— To kill many innocent people without much resistance; to slaughter people.

massacre

— verb kill a large number of people indiscriminately The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda — noun (= slaughter) the savage and excessive killing of many people

Synonyms massacre synonyms

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massacre English » English

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Conjugation massacre conjugation

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massacre · verb

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Simple sentences

The Chinese government controlled the internet to prevent the people from knowing the truth of the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Today, as Americans, we grieve the brutal murder -- a horrific massacre -- of dozens of innocent people. We pray for their families, who are grasping for answers with broken hearts.
The general ordered the massacre of all war prisoners.

Movie subtitles

Did John D, Lee report to you at any time after this massacre what had been done at the massacre and if so, what did you reply to him in reference thereto?
Ulysses starts a massacre among the suitors.
You read about that gangster massacre in Oklahoma City?
Flash, latest bulletin on Mantee Massacre in Oklahoma City.
There was a massacre on Superstition Mountain.
Besides, an Indian War means a massacre you wouldn't want that.
Enough rifles to massacre every white man in the whole territory.
After luncheon we went out to massacre a few more unfortunate birds.
By military telegraph, news of the Custer massacre.. is flashed across the long, lonely miles to the Southwest.
We massacre the innocents.
His parents got killed in a wagon-train massacre, so my father took him in.
We've had reports of destruction, massacre.
It was the beginning of the rout of civilization, the massacre of humanity.
There'd be a massacre.
The ship's guns roared in reply to the massacre.
It may interest you to know that after the Chukoti massacre, Surat Khan fled.
Every British soldier would give his life to avenge the Chukoti massacre. But at this moment, it's impossible.
You want to cause a massacre?
After luncheon we went out to massacre a few more unfortunate birds. - Listen.
Let them build their dam but only the land that's needed, or I'll massacre them!
His parents got killed in a wagon-train massacre. so my father took him in.
Speaking of the Apache, do you know anything about the massacre of a Cavalry patrol at Dutch Creek, several months ago?
If the Apache get them, they'll massacre the territory.
The Dutch Creek massacre. - I wasn't there.
Roderick the tyrant, who some months before seized the throne by a massacre of the entire royal family.
That wasn't a round of drinks-- that was a massacre.
Wouldn't surprise me none if that Indian girl. didn't up and massacre the whole dern lot of them.
Have I got to have a massacre?
It's a massacre.
It'll be a massacre if you don't keep those mitts up.
And how did this charming vampire manage to escape the massacre?
If I could've had them massacre each other, it would've spared me a big housecleaning.
But it's a massacre!
I'll massacre them!
I will avenge this massacre.
We found one man still alive when we went to bury the victims of the massacre.
They'd massacre us to the last man!
A massacre.

News and current affairs

After a particularly horrible massacre in 1996, a new prime minister, John Howard, declared that enough was enough.
Another defining event in 1989 was the Tiananmen Square massacre of pro-democracy protestors in Beijing.
In the wake of the Tiananmen massacre, however, individual dissidents and other political nonconformists were again committed to special psychiatric hospitals on an involuntary and indefinite basis.
The fact that Cao was detained after the 1989 Beijing Massacre, expelled from the Party, spent time abroad lecturing, and now runs a research consulting firm, seemed no impediment.
Governments ought not to be allowed to massacre their own people. And weak governments should not be allowed to permit massacres to take place on their own territory even if they are not themselves carrying out the massacre.
So is this the time to end the arms ban imposed by both Europe and America after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989?
French diplomats have of course informed China about the reluctance of other European countries about lifting the arms embargo, which was imposed after the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Unlike economic migrants, those fleeing oppression, terror, and massacre have an inalienable right to asylum, which entails an unconditional obligation by the international community to provide shelter.
Likewise, the EU has failed to give adequate support to Georgia, or to impose appropriate sanctions on Uzbekistan for last year's massacre at Andijon.
After all, atrocities - including the Srebrenica massacre - continued after the ICTY began operating.
It should be at least as effective in protecting the Yezidis (and Kurds and others in nearby Erbil) as was the intervention in Libya in 2011 to stop the threatened massacre by Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces of the people of Benghazi.
The thirst for vengeance after the Beslan school massacre makes confrontation between Chechens and Ingushis increasingly possible.
After the massacre, soldiers burned the bodies and the houses of their victims.
Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large-scale massacre of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.
Qaddafi cannot be allowed to think that he can massacre his people with impunity.
By opting for the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the Chinese Communist leadership set their country on a road starkly different from the one on which Russia subsequently embarked.
This time, the massacre site was a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, where accused shooter James Holmes murdered and injured dozens of moviegoers.
But little US coverage following a gun massacre assesses the impact of America's health-care system, which is unaffordable to many, especially for those with mental-health problems.
He signs on, essentially, as a corporate contractor - shades of Blackwater's massacre of civilians in Baghdad's Nisour Square.
On the Hong Kong-based search engine, Chinese internauts could read about Taiwan, the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, or the Dalai Lama.
In the past few days, some editors decided that the right response to the Charlie Hebdo massacre was to republish the magazine's cartoons.
Family and friends assumed that Public Security Bureau police detained them and that the couple would be released after the June 4 anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of fifteen years ago passed.
For many years, especially since the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989, China has felt a deficit of global respect.
Governments ought not to be allowed to massacre their own people.
A former adviser to Deng Xiaoping and confidante of former President Jiang Zemin (whose political influence is now waning), Li was among the first to invest in China after the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.
But Rouhani's failure to make a decisive statement on Syria - even after a series of leaked photographs of systematic torture and massacre raised the ire of the international community - has not helped the case for keeping Iran in the fold.
For example, rather than sustain trade sanctions against China after the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the US decided instead to integrate the country into global institutions.
Indeed, the Party's worst fears were realized this past March just before the 15th anniversary of the Tiananmen Massacre.
Such optimistic views were re-enforced when Chinese intellectuals--even some official scholars--began writing and speaking out in favor of re-evaluating controversial Party verdicts on historical incidents (such as the Tiananmen Square massacre).

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