n. 25B6; noun
a cold-blooded massacre of innocent civilians : SLAUGHTER, wholesale/mass slaughter, indiscriminate killing, mass murder, mass execution, annihilation, liquidation, decimation, extermination; carnage, butchery, bloodbath, bloodletting, pogrom, genocide, ethnic cleansing, holocaust, Shoah, night of the long knives; poetic/literary slaying.
(informal) the match was an 80 massacre. : See rout noun sense 2.
25B6; verb
thousands were brutally massacred : SLAUGHTER, butcher, murder, kill, annihilate, exterminate, execute, liquidate, eliminate, decimate, wipe out, mow down, cut down, put to the sword, put to death; poetic/literary slay.
(informal) they were massacred in the final. : See trounce .