massacre
US: /ˈmæsəkɝ/
UK: /mˈæsəkɐ/
UK: /mˈæsəkɐ/
English Vietnamese dictionary
massacre /'mæsəkə/
- danh từ
- sự giết chóc, sự tàn sát
- cuộc tàn sát
- ngoại động từ
- giết chóc, tàn sát
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb
+ noun [C, U]
1 the killing of a large number of people especially in a cruel way: the bloody massacre of innocent civilians + Nobody survived the massacre.
2 (informal) a very big defeat in a game or competition: The game was a 100 massacre for our team.
+ verb [VN]
1 to kill a large number of people, especially in a cruel way: Hundreds of innocent women and children were massacred.
2 (informal) to defeat sb very badly in a game or competition: Our team was massacred in the final.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 slaughter, slaughtering, carnage, annihilation, annihilating, blood bath, killing, execution, extermination, exterminating, butchery, butchering, (mass) murder, murdering, slaying, liquidation, pogrom, genocide:
The massacre of millions of innocent people followed the coup.
v.
2 slaughter, annihilate, kill, execute, exterminate, butcher, murder, slay, liquidate, destroy, eliminate, obliterate, eradicate, put to the sword, decimate, Colloq mow down, Slang bump off:
It was their policy to massacre all the men and take captive all the women and children.
Collocation dictionary
ADJ.
appalling, bloody, cold-blooded, horrible, terrible
an appalling massacre of women and children
VERB + MASSACRE
be responsible for, carry out, perpetrate, take part in
The massacre was carried out by enemy troops. As many as fifty men took part in the massacre.
| be killed in | escape, survive
MASSACRE + VERB
take place
PREP.
~ by
a massacre by rebel soldiers
PHRASES
the victims of a massacre
Concise English dictionary
massacres|massacred|massacring'mæ'skærə /'mæ'skɑːrə
noun
+the savage and excessive killing of many people
verb
+kill a large number of people indiscriminately
