What is another word for mass murder?

Pronunciation: [mˈas mˈɜːdə] (IPA)

Mass murder is a horrific and despicable act where several people are killed at once. It is an unfortunate reality that the world continues to witness these tragic events. The term "mass murder" is used to describe these heinous crimes, but there are other words that can be used as synonyms, including "massacre," "slaughter," "butchery," "carnage," and "annihilation." Each of these words conveys the same meaning of indiscriminate killing on a large scale. The use of different synonyms can help vary the language used to describe these horrific events, but ultimately, they all represent the same senseless violence and loss of innocent lives.

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  • Clinton, Kennedy, they all carried out mass murder, but they didn't think that that was what they were doing - nor does Bush. You know, they were defending justice and democracy from greater evils. And in fact I think you'd find it hard to discover a mass murderer in history who didn't think that.
    Noam Chomsky
  • What kind of mind would sacrifice millions for the sake of a few thousands, especially when it's been demonstrated beyond a shadow of a doubt that victim disarmament can't save even those thousands? What kind of mind wants a return to mean streets and ever-soaring crime rates? What kind of mind collaborates with agents of mass murder and genocide? Make no mistake: you victim disarmament types are sick, sick people, in the words of T.D. Melrose, who'd rather see a woman raped in an alley and strangled with her own pantyhose than see her with a gun in her hand.
    L. Neil Smith
  • And now, our submarines are armed with mass murder, our silly, only way of deterring mass murder.
    John Steinbeck
  • It is sometimes asked why Western observers were so slow in recognising the truth about the Soviet Union. The reason is not that it was hard to come by. It was clear from hundreds of books by emigre survivors - and from statements by the Soviets themselves. But the facts were too uncomfortable for Western observers to admit. For the sake of their peace of mind they had to deny what they knew or suspected to be true. Like the Tasmanian aboriginals who could not see the tall ships that brought their end, these bien-pensants could not bring themselves to see that the pursuit of progress had ended in mass murder. ... What makes the twentieth century special is not the fact that it is littered with massacres. It is the scale of its killings and the fact that they were premeditated for the sake of vast projects of world improvement.
    John Gray (philosopher)
  • All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
    Aldous Huxley

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