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What is the verb for massacre?

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massacre
  1. (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms. (Often limited to the killing of human beings.)
  2. (figuratively) To win so decisively it is in the manner of so slaughtering one's opponent.
  3. (figuratively) To give a performance so poorly it is in the manner of so slaughtering the musical piece, play etc being performed.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Millions of soldiers will massacre one another and, in so doing, devour the region until they have stripped it barer than any swarm of locusts has ever done.”
      “The triple Olympic champion would easily massacre the opposition to retain the second of her titles.”
massacring
massacer
  1. Archaic form of massacre.
massacres
massacrest
  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of massacre
massacred
  1. simple past tense and past participle of massacre
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Fifty thousand devotees praying to the lingam and weeping passionately with hands clasped around their necks were massacred in cold blood.”
      “He had already taken Cologne, where he was reputed to have massacred 11,000 virgins.”
      “In 1890 a Ghost Dance uprising in South Dakota culminated at Wounded Knee, when US troops massacred some 200 Teton Sioux.”
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