Английский Этимологический словарь - massacre
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~1 v 1 to kill a lot of people, especially people who cannot defend themselves (The army massacred French civilians.) (- see kill1) 2 informal to defeat someone very badly in a game or competition ~2 n 1 the killing of a lot of people, especially people who cannot defend themselves (One man, the only survivor of the massacre, lived to tell the gruesome story.) 2 informal a very bad defeat in a game or competition (United lost in a 9-0 massacre.) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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(massacres, massacring, massacred) 1. A massacre is the killing of a large number of people at the same time in a violent and cruel way. Maria lost her 62-year-old mother in the massacre. ...reports of massacre, torture and starvation. N-VAR 2. If people are massacred, a large number of them are attacked and killed in a violent and cruel way. 300 civilians are believed to have been massacred by the rebels... Troops indiscriminately massacred the defenceless population. VERB: be V-ed, V n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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I. noun Etymology: Middle French Date: circa 1578 1. the act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty 2. a cruel or wanton murder 3. a wholesale slaughter of animals 4. an act of complete destruction the author's ~ of traditional federalist presuppositions — R. G. McCloskey II. transitive verb (~d; massacring) Date: 1581 1. to kill by ~ ; slaughter 2. mangle 2 words were misspelled and syntax ~d — Bice Clemow • ~r noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & v. --n. 1 a general slaughter (of persons, occasionally of animals). 2 an utter defeat or destruction. --v.tr. 1 make a massacre of. 2 murder (esp. a large number of people) cruelly or violently. Etymology: OF, of unkn. orig. ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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of St. Bartholomew hist. Варфоломеевская ночь MASSACRE 1. noun резня; избиение, бойня; - massacre of St. Bartholomew 2. v. устраивать резню Syn: see kill ...Англо-русский словарь
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