| Main Entry: | mass murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass killing |
Synonyms: |
Roman holiday, bloodbath, butchering, carnage, ethnic cleansing, extermination, final solution, genocide, holocaust, mass destruction, mass execution, mass extermination, massacre, race extermination, race-murder, slaughter, wholesale murder |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, blitz, blood, blood and guts, blood bath, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine, search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, taking out, warfare, wasting |
| Main Entry: | genocide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass extermination |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, carnage, decimation, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, mass execution, mass murder, massacre, race extermination, slaughter |
| Main Entry: | holocaust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | widespread destruction |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, carnage, catastrophe, devastation, extermination, extinction, genocide, immolation, inferno, mass murder, massacre, slaughter |
| Main Entry: | massacre |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill, often in great numbers |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, butcher, decimate, depopulate, exterminate, mass murder, murder, slaughter, slay |
Antonyms: |
create, give birth |
| Main Entry: | ethnic cleansing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mass killing of an ethnic group |
Synonyms: |
Roman holiday, final solution, genocide, holocaust, mass destruction, mass extermination, mass murder, pogrom, race extermination, race murder, ruthless clearance of populace, wholesale murder |