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Definition of Mass murder
1. Noun. The savage and excessive killing of many people.
Generic synonyms: Execution, Murder, Slaying
Specialized synonyms: Battue, Bloodbath, Bloodletting, Bloodshed
Specialized synonyms: Alamo, Battle Of Little Bighorn, Battle Of The Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, Little Bighorn
Derivative terms: Butcher, Massacre, Slaughter, Slaughterous
Definition of Mass murder
1. Noun. The killing of a large number of people over a short period of time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Mass murder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ring Around the Rosie . . . ! by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1995)
"ROCKEFELLER AND mass murder The New Federalist, Vol. Vifi, NO. 31 (Front page),
August 22, ... mass murder."
2. Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo by Fred Abrahams (2001)
"75 Chris Stephen, "Kosovo's Heights of mass murder," Scotsman, July 10, 1999.
76 James Pringle, "Serbs Killed 350 in Orgy of Violence," Times (London), ..."
3. The Proletarian Revolution in Russia by Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin, Leon Trotsky (1918)
"Have they never heard of the mass murder of workmen and peasants in the Ukraine?
Of the mass murder of workmen by the brave Czecho-Slovaks, these hirelings ..."
4. Sweden by Victor Alfred Nilsson (1899)
"Christian marked his return through the Swedish mainland to Copenhagen by executions
and mass murder everywhere; six hundred are estimated to have been ..."
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