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Noun: massacre  ma-su-ku(r)
  1. The savage and excessive killing of many people
    - slaughter, mass murder, carnage, butchery
Verb: massacre  ma-su-ku(r)
  1. Kill a large number of people indiscriminately
    "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda";
    - slaughter, mow down, butcher

Derived forms: massacring, massacred, massacres

Type of: execution, kill, murder, slaying

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