Difference between Massacre and Slaughter

MASSACRE vs SLAUGHTER: NOUN

The intentional killing of a considerable number of human beings, under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the norms of civilized people.
The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people.
A severe defeat, as in a sports event.
In heraldry, a pair of antlers or attires attached to a piece of the skull, used as a bearing.
Murder.
The indiscriminate killing of human beings; the unnecessary slaughter of a number of persons, as in barbarous warfare or persecution, or for revenge or plunder: as, the massacre of Glencoe: sometimes applied also to the wholesale killing of wild animals.
The slaughter of a large number of animals.
The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
The savage and excessive killing of many people

The killing of animals (as for food)
The savage and excessive killing of many people
A sound defeat
The killing of animals especially for food.
The killing of a large number of people; a massacre.
Applied to beasts, butchery; the killing of oxen, sheep, or other animals for market.
Great or sweeping reduction in the price of goods offered for sale.
Synonyms Havoc. See kill.
The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
A rout or decisive defeat.
The act of slaying or killing, especially of many persons or animals.

To defeat decisively.
To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings.
To kill indiscriminately and wantonly; slaughter.
To botch; bungle.

Synonyms Murder, Slaughter, etc. See kill.
To kill with attendant circumstances of atrocity; butcher; slaughter: commonly used in reference to the killing of a large number of human beings at once, who are not in a condition to defend themselves.

To kill; slay; especially, to kill wantonly, ruthlessly, or in great numbers; massacre: as, to slaughter men in battle.
To butcher; kill, as animals for the market or for food: as, to slaughter oxen or sheep.

Slaughtering, Bloodletting, Bloodshed, Holocaust, Tragedy, Assassination, Killing, Carnage, Genocide, Slaying, Bloodbath, Atrocity, Mow down, Mass murder, Slaughter

Meat, Culling, Cull, Slaughterhouse, Mow down, Debacle, Whipping, Walloping, Trouncing, Drubbing, Thrashing, Butcher, Carnage, Butchery, Massacre

Mess, Mass, Wipeout, Onslaught, Slaughterhouse, Butcher, Bloodshed, Holocaust, Tragedy, Killing, Genocide, Slaying, Atrocity, Mass murder, Slaughter

Beef, Killing, Genocide, Abattoirs, Abattoir, Meat, Slaughterhouse, Debacle, Whipping, Walloping, Trouncing, Drubbing, Thrashing, Butcher, Massacre

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The Sand Creek Massacre Trail in Wyoming follows the paths of the Northern Arapaho and Cheyenne in the years after the massacre.
Paradise in which their choice was between massacre or pillage by Mahrattas, and pillage or massacre by Afghans.
But the story I heard most often was the Sand Creek Massacre and this is a horrific Massacre of mostly Elders, women, and children.
In a sense, the word Massacre was certainly hyperbole and newspapers screamed headlines of a massacre implying huge acts of violence for little cause.
Ardeatine Massacre in school, but I had never met anyone who had known someone killed in the massacre.
There was no massacre of the defenders, largely because there was scarcely anyone left to massacre.
While this is not an exhaustive list, enacting these suggestions would certainly prevent another government massacre like the massacre of the Branch Davidians.
In fact the veterans of the massacre would meet up every year after the massacre.
Colfax massacre, the Mountain Meadows Massacre, the Greenwood Massacre and so on.

Slaughter Rule and the inhumane handling that would be prevented, or at least significantly reduced, but for the Slaughter Rule.
Inspection of livestock, rabbits and poultry before slaughter; separate slaughter for diseased; inspection of carcasses.
Sheep entering Washington state for immediate slaughter at a federally inspected slaughter facility are exempt from the certificate of veterinary inspection and testing requirements.
Do you sell your slaughter animals directly to the consumer either by phone or in person prior to slaughter?
Effect of paratuberculosis on slaughter weight and slaughter value of dairy cows.
Usuallye the sheep for slaughter, but here theshepherds themselves are led to the slaughter!
Congresswoman Schakowsky to ban domestic horse slaughter and end the export of horses abroad for slaughter.
Livestock, confined for immediate slaughter only, slaughter houses, meat packing.
Slaughter animals should have one single electronic slaughter batch tag.
Slaughter legislation includes humane slaughter and stunning, except for religious slaughter.

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What temperature is a pig scalded before slaughter?
Is rewashing necessary during slaughter and dressing?
Are Diestel turkeys given antibiotics before slaughter?
Are slaughter establishments federally registered in BC?
Why is the slaughter house called the slaughter house?
Why is the band Slaughter Beach called Slaughter Beach?
What percentage of abattoirs with the poorest slaughter hygiene have poor slaughter hygiene?
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