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Definitions of massacre
  1. noun
    the savage and excessive killing of many people
  2. verb
    kill a large number of people indiscriminately
    "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

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  • esther an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre
  • esther (Old Testament) a beautiful Jewess chosen by the king of Persia to be his queen; she stopped a plot to massacre all the Jews in Persia (an event celebrated by Jews as the feast of Purim)
  • nanking a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s
  • alamo a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
  • nanjing a city in eastern China on the Yangtze River; a former capital of China; the scene of a Japanese massacre in the 1930s
  • purim (Judaism) a Jewish holy day commemorating their deliverance from massacre by Haman
  • haman (Old Testament) the minister of the Persian emperor who hated the Jews and was hanged for plotting to massacre them
  • book of esther an Old Testament book telling of a beautiful Jewess who became queen of Persia and saved her people from massacre
  • rain-in-the-face a chief of the Sioux; he was with Sitting Bull and others at the Battle of Little Bighorn (1876) when General Custer's troops were massacred (1835-1905)
  • killing field (usually plural) an area where many people have died (usually by massacre or genocide during war or violent civil disturbance)
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