Definition of massacre Entry 1 of 2. McCloskey the Puritan massacre of statues and pictures — Robert Hughes. Definition of massacre Entry 2 of 2. Synonyms for massacre Synonyms: Noun bloodbath , butchery , carnage , death , holocaust , slaughter Synonyms: Verb butcher , mow down , slaughter Visit the Thesaurus for More. Examples of massacre in a Sentence Noun The game turned out to be a complete massacre. The other team really massacred us on Saturday.
He really massacred that song. Army veteran Brian Mark Lemley Jr. Taiwo, The New Yorker , 25 Oct. Wu, The Atlantic , 17 June Were the protesters worried that vengeful Azerbaijanis, at the time advancing victoriously across land Armenians seized in , would massacre any Armenians left behind in the retreat? First Known Use of massacre Noun circa , in the meaning defined at sense 1 Verb , in the meaning defined at sense 1. Yet even with our outrage over dead children we are not that constant.
The nature of viral news and social media could be part of this inconsistency. Photos, Facebook updates and YouTube clips divorce events from context or deeper analysis. For Syria watchers the Houla massacre is more noteworthy for things like the inconsistencies in the causes of death, the reason so many victims were children and the tit-for-tat finger-pointing of the FSA and Syrian government.
Civilian deaths are a point of propaganda for both sides, and like the Yugoslavian meltdown there are sometimes lingering questions regarding the true identity of forces responsible for atrocities. Its excessive uses have a detrimental effect on the concept of massacre which is consequently devaluated. Thus, they take themselves out of the judicial legacy of genocide. This last opposition is central to understand the western transformation of the massacre in a taboo during the contemporary period.
Such a view underlines the socio-historical processes of destruction which sometimes lead to genocide. Mark Levene links genocide to the modernization of the Nation-State, starting at the end of the eighteenth century. The massacre of cartoonists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo is a crystallizing moment. Several Muslim sites in France, including mosques have been attacked or vandalized since the Charlie Hebdo massacre.
What often is forgotten—and what Beck could probably stand to remember—is that the massacre was, technically, a firefight.
Nearly two full months have passed since the student massacre that took place in the city of Iguala, Guerrero. Those who escaped the massacre were hung upon the same trees on which the Frenchmen had previously been hung. There was the usual massacre , but this time the trees were cut down and the wells choked up. The sight of the awful carnage affected even the warworn Marshal, and made him exclaim, "What a massacre!
Native rumors had brought the news of the massacre at Cawnpore, though the ghastly tragedy of the Well was yet to come. It was during his reign that the fatal massacre of St. Bartholomews took place, which renders his name odious. New Word List Word List. Save This Word!
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