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mas·sa·cre |
[French, from Old French macecle, macecre, butchery, shambles.]
massacrer mas'sa·crer (-kər-ər, -krər) n.|
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A massacre is the general and unnecessary slaughter of members of one group by one or more members of another more powerful group. A massacre may be indiscriminate or highly methodical in application. The massacred group may be humans or animals. A massacre is a single event, though it may occur during the course of an extended campaign or war. A massacre is separate from a battle (an event in which opposing sides fight), but may follow in its immediate aftermath, when one side has surrendered or lost the ability to fight, yet the victors persist in killing their opponents.
The term is also used metaphorically for events that do not involve any deaths, such as the Saturday Night Massacre, which refers to the mass number of dismissals and resignations of political appointees during the Watergate scandal.
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The term massacre is derived from the Latin term "mass sacrifice", being the term used to describe a mass-killing for the prosecutor's or prosecutors' personal gain. The idea itself is also used for certain events in history,[1] which may or may not be agreed on by all reasonable definitions, but may serve propaganda purposes. The first recorded use in English of the word massacre in the name of an event is "Marlowe (c1600), The massacre at Paris"[1] (a reference to the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre). Massacre can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, animals) in numbers, esp. brutally and indiscriminately",[2] the first usage of which was "1588 J. PENRY Viewe Publ. Wants Wales 65 Men which make no conscience for gaine sake, to breake the law of the æternall, and massaker soules...are dangerous subjects".[2]
Massacres can be difficult to investigate because they are often done secretly and the victims may all have been killed, so that only the perpetrators survive and are able to bear witness.[3] There are those who have observed that when an urban massacre is initiated by government authorities, such as what happened in Soweto in the 1980s, leaders of the massacred are usually not included in the toll, perhaps because leaders do not usually join in the street demonstrations they organize.[4]
Japanese soldiers killed over 300,000 Chinese people in Nanjing, 1937.
Massacre of Polish during the German occupation of Poland, December 18, 1939.
Victims of the My Lai Massacre, South Vietnam; killed by U.S. soldiers, March 16, 1968.
Exhumed victim of the Srebrenica massacre, 1995. Note blindfold and bound hands.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - massakre, nedslagtning, blodbad
v. tr. - massakrere, nedslagte, meje ned
Nederlands (Dutch)
uitmoorden, slachten, verminken (figuurlijk), moordpartij, afslachting (ook figuurlijk)
Français (French)
n. - (lit, fig) massacre
v. tr. - (lit) massacrer, (fig) démolir, massacrer (une langue)
Deutsch (German)
n. - Massaker
v. - massakrieren
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μακελειό, (ομαδική) σφαγή
v. - κατασφάζω, σφαγιάζω, κρεουργώ
Italiano (Italian)
massacrare, massacro
Português (Portuguese)
n. - massacre (m)
v. - massacrar
Русский (Russian)
резня, поражение, резать, устраивать резню
Español (Spanish)
n. - masacre, matanza
v. tr. - masacrar, hacer una matanza, matar en masa
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - massaker
v. - massakrera
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
大屠杀, 残杀
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 大屠殺
v. tr. - 大屠殺, 殘殺
한국어 (Korean)
n. - 많은 사람을 죽임, 철저한 패배
v. tr. - 대량 학살을 하다, 다른 사람을 욕하다, 확실하게 이기다
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 大虐殺, 完敗
v. - 虐殺する
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) مذبحه (فعل) يقتل بلا رحمه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - טבח, פוגרום, חורבן (מדוברת)
v. tr. - טבח, השמיד, הביס, החריב
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