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massacre

to massacre
Werkwoord
  • opzettelijk mensen doden; iedereen vermoorden; op brute wijze doden; op brute wijze vermoorden
  • kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

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massacre
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • massamoord
  • the savage and excessive killing of many people

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massacre
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • bloedbad, afslachting, hecatombe, moordpartij, slachting
  • the savage and excessive killing of many people

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Voorbeeldzinnen

  1. On the 2nd of September 1792 when the general massacre of the prisoners took place at Paris, M. Sombreuil was on the point of being sacrificed when he was rescued from the hands of the assassins by the heroic conduct of his daughter, though on the dreadful condition that she would drink success to the republic in a goblet of blood!
  2. As CNDP Chief of Staff, had direct and command responsibility for the massacre at Kiwanja (November 2008)
  3. According to multiple sources, Lt Col Innocent Zimurinda, in his capacity as one of the commanders of the FARDC 231st Brigade, gave orders that resulted in the massacre of over 100 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, during an April 2009 military operation in the Shalio area.