noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ appalling ( esp. BrE ), bloody , brutal , terrible
▪
an appalling ~ of women and children
▪ genocidal
▪ indiscriminate , wholesale
▪
He accused the troops of the indiscriminate ~ of civilians.
VERB + MASSACRE
▪ be responsible for , carry out , commit , perpetrate , take part in
▪
The ~ was carried out by enemy troops.
▪
As many as fifty men took part in the ~.
▪ be killed in
▪ escape , survive
▪ condemn , denounce
MASSACRE + VERB
▪ take place
PREPOSITION
▪ ~ by
▪
a ~ by rebel soldiers
PHRASES
▪ the victims of a ~