📚 Massacre, verb. 🔉 /ˈmasəkə/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (with object): Deliberately and brutally kill (many people) ❗️ Examples: 1. Thousands were brutally massacred by soldiers. 2. In retaliation to killings of northerners in the South, the military rulers massacred thousands of southerners and many were brutally tortured. 3. We would massacre their cities, killing woman and children, and they would do the same. 4. Then criminal responsibility would in fact be much clearer than it would be if soldiers had massacred civilians in violation of orders. 5. In the later stages of the campaign, we know the citizens of these villages were killed and massacred and buried in mass graves. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic