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massacre | srebrenica |

As a verb massacre

is .

As a proper noun srebrenica is

a town in the east of bosnia, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing.

As a noun srebrenica is

an ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.

massacre

English

Alternative forms

* massacer (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the norms of civilized people.
    • the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day
    St. Valentine's Day''' '''massacre
    Amritsar''' '''massacre
  • (obsolete) Murder.
  • * 1593 , , The Tragedy of Richard the Third
    • The tyrannous and bloody act is done,—
    The most arch deed of piteous massacre
    That ever yet this land was guilty of.
  • (figuratively) An overwhelming defeat.

    • Synonyms

    * butchery, carnage, slaughter. *: Massacre denotes the promiscuous slaughter of many who can not make resistance, or much resistance. *:* 1592 , , Titus Andronicus, I,v *:*: I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family *: Butchery refers to cold-blooded cruelty in the killing of men as if they were brute beasts. *:* 1593 , , Richard III, I,ii *:*: If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Behold this pattern of thy butcheries *: Carnage points to slaughter as producing the heaped-up bodies of the slain. *:* 1674 , , Paradise Lost *:*: Such a scent I draw Of carnage , prey innumerable!

    Related terms

    * mass murder * massacrer * massacree

    Verb

    (massacr)
  • To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the norms of civilized people; to butcher; to slaughter.
  • * 1849 , , The History Of England From the Accession of James II
    • If James should be pleased to massacre' them all, as Maximilian had ' massacred the Theban legion
  • (figuratively)

    • srebrenica

    English

    (wikipedia)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A town in the east of Bosnia, which was the site of an ethnic cleansing .

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • An ethnic cleansing massacre, a localized genocide.
  • * 2008 , Ralph Peters, Never Quit the Fight (ISBN 0811734404), page 132:
    • And another Srebrenica , a Lidice, a Babi Yar . . .
  • * 2011 , Western Intervention in the Balkans: The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict'' (Roger D. Petersen; ISBN 1107010667), page 155:
    • The West had seen enough of Milosevic and they would not tolerate the possibility of another Srebrenica .
  • * 2012 January 17, Canon Ian Woodward, in comments before the United Kingdom House of Commons, published in South Sudan: prospects for peace and development, fifteenth report of session 2010–12 (ISBN 0215043731), page 15:
    • I think we all saw that very strong leader in The Times on Saturday, with the suggestion that the UN was walking, in the case of Jonglei, into another Srebrenica or another Rwanda.

    See also

    * Vietnam, Chernobyl ----