Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun massacre

1 sense of massacre

Sense 1
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
       => murder, slaying, execution -- (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb massacre

1 sense of massacre

Sense 1
massacre, slaughter, mow down -- (kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda")
       => kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")