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8-letter words (1 found)

MASSACRE,

7-letter words (6 found)

AMASSER,CAESARS,CAMASES,CAMERAS,SARCASM,SCREAMS,

6-letter words (23 found)

ARAMES,ARECAS,ASMEAR,CAESAR,CAMASS,CAMERA,CARESS,CARSES,CRAMES,CRASES,CREAMS,ESCARS,MAASES,MACERS,MARAES,MARSES,MASERS,SCARES,SCRAES,SCRAMS,SCREAM,SERACS,SMEARS,

5-letter words (57 found)

ACERS,ACMES,ACRES,AMASS,ARAME,AREAS,ARECA,ARSES,ASSAM,CAMAS,CAMES,CARES,CARSE,CASAS,CASES,CRAME,CRAMS,CRASS,CREAM,CREMS,CRESS,EMACS,ESCAR,MAARE,MAARS,MACAS,MACER,MACES,MARAE,MARAS,MARCS,MARES,MARSE,MASAS,MASER,MASES,MASSA,MASSE,MERCS,MESAS,RACES,RASES,RASSE,REAMS,SACRA,SAMAS,SAMES,SASER,SCAMS,SCARE,SCARS,SCRAE,SCRAM,SEAMS,SEARS,SERAC,SMEAR,

4-letter words (64 found)

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3-letter words (38 found)

AAS,ACE,AMA,AME,ARC,ARE,ARM,ARS,ASS,CAA,CAM,CAR,EAR,EAS,EMS,ERA,ERM,ERS,ESS,MAA,MAC,MAE,MAR,MAS,MES,RAM,RAS,REC,REM,RES,SAC,SAE,SAM,SAR,SEA,SEC,SER,SMA,

2-letter words (12 found)

AA,AE,AM,AR,AS,EA,EM,ER,ES,MA,ME,RE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 202 words from massacre according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of massacre

massacre

Alternative forms

  • massacer (archaic)

Etymology

1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed:

  • From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”).
  • From Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattea, mattia, from Latin mateola.
  • From Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.
  • Note also Arabic مَجْزَرَة (majzara), originally “spot where animals are slaughtered”, now also “massacre”, and in Maghrebi Arabic “slaughterhouse”. Derived from جَزَرَ (jazara, “to cut, slaughter”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmæs.ə.kə(ɹ)/

Noun

massacre (countable and uncountable, plural massacres)

  1. The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.
    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre
    St. Valentine's Day Massacre
    Amritsar Massacre
  2. (obsolete) Murder.
  3. (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.

Synonyms

  • (mass killing contrary to civilized norms): butchery, slaughter (in the manner of livestock); decimation (strictly an orderly selection of ⅒ of a group for slaughter; see its entry for other terms concerning other ratios)

Hyponyms

  • (mass killing contrary to civilized norms): atrocity; war crime; ethnic cleansing

Derived terms

  • St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

Related terms

  • carnage
  • mass murder
  • massacrer
  • massacree

Translations

Verb

massacre (third-person singular simple present massacres, present participle massacring, simple past and past participle massacred)

  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. (transitive, figuratively) To win against (an opponent) very decisively.
  3. (transitive, figuratively) To perform (a work, such as a musical piece or a play) very poorly.
  4. (transitive, proscribed) To kill with great force or brutality.
    • 1972, The Godfather (film)
      Look how they massacred my boy.

Translations

Anagrams

  • Marescas, massacer

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French massacre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central, Balearic) [məˈsa.kɾə]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [maˈsa.kɾe]

Noun

massacre f (plural massacres)

  1. massacre

Related terms

  • massacrar

Further reading

  • “massacre” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ma.sakʁ/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle French massacre, from the verb massacrer.

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

  1. massacre
Derived terms
  • jeu de massacre
Related terms
  • massacrer
Descendants

Etymology 2

Verb

massacre

  1. inflection of massacrer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “massacre”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • sacrâmes, sarcasme

Middle French

Etymology

Of disputed origin:

  • Most likely from Old French macecrer, macecler, from Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattia, *mattea, from Latin mateola.
  • From a derivative of Latin macellum (“butcher shop”), although this is less likely.
  • From Old French macacre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), alternatively from Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”), from Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

  1. massacre

Descendants

  • French: massacre

Occitan

Etymology

From French massacre.

Pronunciation

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

  1. massacre

Related terms

  • massacrar

Portuguese

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French massacre.

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: mas‧sa‧cre

Noun

massacre m (plural massacres)

  1. massacre
Related terms
  • massacrar
  • massacrante

References

Etymology 2

Verb

massacre

  1. inflection of massacrar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Source: wiktionary.org