massacre

تعريف massacre في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.: To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter - limited to the killing of human beings
If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximilian had massacred the Theban legion.; Murder
That ever yet this land was guilty of.; The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people
the massacre.; the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings; {f} slaughter, kill a large number of people violently; defeat, destroy (Colloquial); {n} butchery, carnage, murder, havoc; {v} to butcher indiscriminately; Bartholomew's Day; 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. Amritsar Massacre of Boston Massacre Gnadenhütten Massacre Katyn Massacre My Lai Massacre Nanjing Massacre Peterloo Massacre Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre of Sand Creek Massacre Chivington Massacre Seven Oaks Massacre Wyoming Massacre; 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; the savage and excessive killing of many people; {i} widespread slaughter (of people), bloodshed, extermination; total defeat (Colloquial); kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda; To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; limited to the killing of human beings; kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"; The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St; carnage
massacre chaser: A massacre chaser is an individual who associates with a massacre to gain publicity for themselves or their campaign
massacre chasers: plural form of massacre chaser
Massacre of Amritsar: (1919) Incident in which British troops fired on a crowd of Indian protesters. In 1919 the British government of India enacted the Rowlatt Acts, extending its World War I emergency powers to combat subversive activities. On April 13 a large crowd gathered at Amritsar in the Punjab to protest the measures; troops opened fire, killing about 379 and wounding some 1,200. The massacre permanently scarred relations between India and Britain and was the prelude to Mohandas K. Gandhi's noncooperation movement of 1920-22
Massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day: (Aug. 24-25, 1572) Murder of French Huguenots in Paris by Catholics. As part of the ongoing Wars of Religion, Catherine de Médicis agreed to a plot by the Guise family (see house of Guise) to assassinate the Huguenot Gaspard II de Coligny. When he was only wounded, Catherine feared discovery of her complicity and secretly urged faithful nobles to murder all the Huguenot leaders, who were in Paris for the wedding of the future Henry IV. The massacre began on August 24 and spread rapidly; after the leaders had been murdered, Huguenot homes and shops were pillaged and their occupants murdered and thrown into the Seine. Even after the royal order on August 25 to stop the killing, it continued and spread to Rouen, Lyon, Bourges, Orléans, and Bordeaux. By October, about 3,000 Huguenots had been murdered in Paris and probably tens of thousands more in the provinces
Massacre of the Innocents: a story in the New Testament of the Bible in which King Herod hears about the birth of the Messiah in Bethlehem. He orders all male babies in the town to be killed so that the Messiah will not live, but Jesus and his family escape before this happens
Machpela Cave massacre: mass killing of Muslim worshipers by a Jewish extremist which occurred in the Machpela Cave in Hebron
munich massacre: The event occurred during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, when members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually murdered by Black September, a militant group with ties to Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization
Boston Massacre: one of the events that started the American Revolutionary War. In 1770 a group of Boston citizens, who were angry because the British army was in their town, threatened a British soldier. Other soldiers fired their guns into the crowd, killing five people. Skirmish on March 5, 1770, between British troops and a crowd in Boston. After provocation by the colonists, British soldiers fired on the mob and killed five men, including Crispus Attucks. The incident was widely publicized by Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and others as a battle for American liberty, and it contributed to the unpopularity of the British in the years before the American Revolution
Boston Massacre: event which occurred on the 5th of March 1770 in which young American Colonists taunted British troops and the British troops retaliated by shooting and killing 5 people (one of the events that lead to the American Revolution)
Gnadenhütten Massacre: (March 8, 1782) Murder of 96 Indians, mostly Delawares, by American troops at an Ohio village during the American Revolution. The Indians, converted peaceful Christians, were under suspicion because of their neutrality in the war. An American officer, David Williamson, and his militia, seeking revenge for Indian raids on frontier settlements, pretended friendship with the Indians, then disarmed them and returned to kill them in cold blood; two scalped boys escaped to relate the slayings
Hebron massacre: killing of 29 Moslem worshipers by Baruch Goldstein in the city of Hebron
Jonestown Massacre: 1978 mass suicide in Guyana by members of the religious cult "The People's Temple" in which the leader Jim Jones ordered members to drink cyanide-laced punch
Kafr Qasim Massacre: event in which border patrolmen shot dead residents of Kfar Qasim who were not aware that there was a curfew in the town (1956)
Katyn Massacre: Mass killing of Polish military officers by the Soviet Union in World War II. After the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact (1939) and Germany's defeat of Poland, Soviet forces occupied eastern Poland and interned thousands of Polish military personnel. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union (1941), the Polish government-in-exile agreed to cooperate with the Soviets against Germany, and the Polish general forming the new army asked to have the Polish prisoners placed under his command, but the Soviet government informed him in December 1941 that most of those prisoners had escaped to Manchuria and could not be located. In 1943 the Germans discovered mass graves in the Katyn forest in western Russia. A total of 4,443 corpses were recovered; the victims had apparently been shot from behind and then piled in stacks and buried. The Soviet government claimed the invading German army had killed them, but it refused Polish requests to have the Red Cross investigate. In 1992 the Russian government released documents proving that the Soviet secret police were responsible for the executions and cover-up
Kent State Massacre: incident in 1970 in which students protesting the Vietnam War were shot by riot police (at Kent State University in Ohio)
Mountain Meadows Massacre: 1857 massacre of non-Mormon pioneers by Indians and Mormons in southern Utah (USA)
My Lai massacre: a village in Vietnam where, in 1968, a group of US soldiers killed several hundred people, mostly old people, women, and children, during the Vietnam War. This event influenced many Americans to oppose the war. (March 16, 1968) Mass killing of as many as 500 unarmed villagers by U.S. soldiers in the hamlet of My Lai during the Vietnam War. A company of U.S. soldiers on a search-and-destroy mission against the hamlet found no armed Viet Cong there but nonetheless killed all the elderly men, women, and children they could find; few villagers survived. The incident was initially covered up by high-ranking army officers, but it was later made public by former soldiers. In the ensuing courts-martial, platoon leader Lt. William Calley was accused of directing the killings and was convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison; but Pres. Richard Nixon intervened on his behalf, and he was paroled after three years. The massacre and other atrocities revealed during the trial divided the U.S. public and contributed to growing disillusionment with the war
My Lai massacre: Vietnam War incident in 1968 in which American troops killed over 500 inhabitants of a Vietnamese village with no apparent provocation
Nanjing Massacre: or Rape of Nanjing (December 1937-January 1938) Mass killing and rape of Chinese people in Nanjing by Japanese soldiers after the Japanese had captured the city on Dec. 13, 1937. The Japanese commander ordered the destruction of Nanjing, which had been the Nationalist Chinese capital. Estimates of the number killed range from 100,000 to more than 300,000, and tens of thousands of rapes were committed. Japanese wartime brutality in China contributed to cool relations between the two countries into the 21st century. See also war crime; World War II
Peterloo Massacre: (Aug. 16, 1819) Brutal dispersal of a meeting held on St. Peter's Fields in Manchester, Eng. Called to protest unemployment and high food prices and demand parliamentary reform, the meeting drew about 60,000 people, including many women and children. Alarmed by its size, city officials ordered the city's volunteer cavalry to arrest the speakers. The untrained cavalry also attacked the peaceable crowd with sabres, and professional soldiers were sent to join the attack. After a 10-minute rout, about 500 people lay injured and 11 were dead. The incident (likened to Waterloo) came to symbolize Tory tyranny
Sand Creek Massacre: or Chivington Massacre (Nov. 29, 1864) Surprise attack by U.S. troops on a Cheyenne camp. A force of 1,200 men, mostly Colorado volunteers under Col. John M. Chivington, attacked several hundred Cheyenne camped on Sand Creek near Fort Lyon in southeastern Colorado Territory. The Indians had been conducting peace negotiations with the fort's commander; when the attack began, they raised a white flag, but the troops continued to attack, massacring more than 200 of them. The slayings led to the Plains Indian wars
Seven Oaks Massacre: (1816) Destruction of a Canadian fur-trading settlement. Sixty Métis, directed by an agent of the North West Co., attempted to run provisions past the rival Hudson's Bay Co. settlement on the Red River. They were intercepted by the colony's governor and 25 soldiers at Seven Oaks, near the settlement. An argument grew into a fight in which the Métis killed 20 men, including the governor. They then threatened the remaining settlers with massacre, forcing them to abandon the colony. The settlement was restored the next year
Wyoming Massacre: (July 3, 1778) Killing of American settlers by the British in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania. In the American Revolution, British Col. John Butler led a force of 1,000 loyalists and Iroquois allies against 5,000 settlers in the valley, many of whom were gathered at Forty Fort. A band of men and boys left the fort to meet the attackers and was defeated; 360 settlers were killed, and others who escaped to the woods died of starvation. Butler's forces continued their raids on frontier settlements in New York, which led to American action against the Iroquois. See also Iroquois Confederacy
massacred: past of massacre
massacres: plural of massacre
massacring: present participle of massacre
the massacre at the Cave of Machpelah: murderous rampage of Jews against Arabs that occurred in this cave in 1994

massacre

الواصلة

mas·sa·cre

التركية النطق

mäsıkır

المترادفات

butchery, carnage, slaughter, annihilation, assassination, bloodbath, bloodshed, decimation, extermination, genocide, internecion, murder, slaying, annihilate, butcher

المتضادة

create, give birth

النطق

/ˈmasəkər/ /ˈmæsəkɜr/

علم أصول الكلمات

[ ma-si-k&r ] (noun.) circa 1578. 1580, from Middle French massacre from Old French macacre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”) from Medieval Latin mazacrium "massacre, slaughter, killing", also "the head of a newly killed stag", of Germanic origin, from Low Saxon *matskelen "to massacre" (compare German metzeln "to massacre"), frequentive of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”) from Proto-Germanic *mit-, *mait- (“to cut”) from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”), Dutch matsen (“to maul, kill”), dialectal German metzgern "to butcher, kill", German metzgen (“to cut, kill, slaughter cattle”), Metzger (“a butcher”), Metzelei (“massacre”), Gothic