as in slaughtering
to kill on a large scale
the country's rival ethnic groups began massacring one another
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Recent Examples of massacring
The regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran is massacring young people and destroying Iran’s future.
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Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
The military has been documented going on bloody rampages, torching and bombing villages, massacring residents, jailing opponents and forcing young men and women to join the army.
—Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
In his 2000 book about the breakup of Yugoslavia, Safe Area Goražde, the Bosnian Serbs massacring their neighbors in the 1990s defended their crimes by appealing to similar killings carried out against ethnic Serbs during the Nazi-era fascist regime.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
For his part, once freed, the Ghoul sets to work massacring the gang with cartoonish brutality; gotta love the grenade kill at the end, setting off a shower of limbs, blood, and various vital organs.
—Jack King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Hamas is a terrorist group that provoked a terrible war by massacring civilians.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Equal Justice Initiative In 1898, white supremacists orchestrated a coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing a biracial government and massacring dozens of Black citizens.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 25 June 2020
Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
The military has been documented going on bloody rampages, torching and bombing villages, massacring residents, jailing opponents and forcing young men and women to join the army.
—Ross Adkin, CNN Money, 27 Dec. 2025
In his 2000 book about the breakup of Yugoslavia, Safe Area Goražde, the Bosnian Serbs massacring their neighbors in the 1990s defended their crimes by appealing to similar killings carried out against ethnic Serbs during the Nazi-era fascist regime.
—Robert Rubsam, The Atlantic, 18 Dec. 2025
For his part, once freed, the Ghoul sets to work massacring the gang with cartoonish brutality; gotta love the grenade kill at the end, setting off a shower of limbs, blood, and various vital organs.
—Jack King, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2025
Hamas is a terrorist group that provoked a terrible war by massacring civilians.
—Carlo Versano, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
The visitors ended up massacring a village, which left her devastated.
—Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 12 Sep. 2025
Equal Justice Initiative In 1898, white supremacists orchestrated a coup in Wilmington, North Carolina, overthrowing a biracial government and massacring dozens of Black citizens.
—Equal Justice Initiative, USA Today, 25 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for massacring
slaughtering
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In Jonathan Miles’s novella, a man is tasked with saving an island sanctuary by slaughtering thousands of goats.—
Ron Charles,
Washington Post,
4 Feb. 2026
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She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred, in incidents inspired by her opposition to the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep during annual religious holidays.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
28 Dec. 2025
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“Massacring.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/massacring. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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