| Main Entry: | massacre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing of many |
Synonyms: |
annihilation, assassination, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, extermination, genocide, internecion, murder, slaughter, slaying |
| 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: | annihilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy completely |
Synonyms: |
abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, blot out, crush*, decimate, demolish, do in, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish off, invalidate, liquidate, massacre, murder, negate, nullify, obliterate, quash, quell, raze, root out, rub out, ruin, slaughter, take out*, undo, vitiate, wipe out, wrack, wreck |
Antonyms: |
help, preserve, revive, save |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
Synonyms: |
amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | decimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
Synonyms: |
annihilate, butcher, commit genocide, execute, exterminate, kill off, massacre, obliterate, slaughter, stamp out, wipe out |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
Synonyms: |
KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
Antonyms: |
conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
| Main Entry: | destruction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | demolition, devastation |
Synonyms: |
abolishing, abolition, annihilation, assassinating, bane, carnage, crashing, crushing, disintegrating, disrupting, dissolving, downfall, elimination, end, eradication, extermination, extinction, extinguishing, extirpation, havoc, invalidating, invalidation, liquidation, loss, massacre, murder, overthrow, ravaging, ruin, ruination, sacking, shattering, slaughter, slaying, subjugation, subversion, subverting, undoing, wreckage, wrecking |
Antonyms: |
building, construction, creation, improvement, reparation, restoration |
| Main Entry: | exterminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | kill |
Synonyms: |
abolish, annihilate, blot out, decimate, destroy, do away with, eliminate, eradicate, erase, execute, extinguish, extirpate, finish off, massacre, obliterate, put an end to, rub out, send to kingdom come, slaughter, stamp out, wipe out |
Antonyms: |
bear, create |
| 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 |