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(obsolete) Murderous; assassin-like.
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(figuratively) Any incredibly dangerous person.
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The act of cannibalizing.
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The corpses, gore, etc. that remain after a massacre.
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(now rare, historical) An executioner.
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The act of hiring or procuring a contract killer.
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The killing of a god or goddess.
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(by extension) Any great sacrifice; a great number of people, animals or things, especially as sacrificed or destroyed; a large amount.
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(rare) Slitting of the throat as a way to kill something or someone.
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A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.
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(rare, mostly in fantasy fiction) One who slays his or her own kin; a parricide.
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A means of execution or of euthanasia in which a person is injected with a fatal dose of drugs.
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The deliberate killing of a human being; murder.
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(of an animal) killing domestic animals.
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(uncountable, idiomatic) Killing of large numbers of people.
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The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to civilized norms.
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Synonym of St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
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One who has been killed in a massacre.
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(obsolete) Of, or pertaining to, a massacre.
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(US, espionage jargon) A discreet assassination made to look like death from any natural cause.
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(uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
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A professional murderer.
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(UK dialectal) Murder; slaughter.
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Obsolete form of murder. [(uncountable) The crime of deliberately killing a person without moral justification.]
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(by extension) a helpless victim
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Alternative form of St. Bartholomew's Day massacre [(historical) A massacre of French Huguenots in 1572 by a Roman Catholic mob.]
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(Philippines) Summary execution, extrajudicial killing.
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(US, politics, figuratively) A confrontation where authorities brutally repress those wanting civil rights, similar to Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama.
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(historical) A person (usually a man) who is supposed to take sins of a deceased person upon himself by means of eating a piece of bread, laid for him on the breast of the dead one.
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The Commandment that states that killing a human being is a sin; commonly recited as "You shall not murder", "You shall not kill" or "Thou shalt not kill".
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A murderer in such a film.
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A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
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Killing, especially the murder of a human.
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Alternative form of St. Bartholomew's Day massacre [(historical) A massacre of French Huguenots in 1572 by a Roman Catholic mob.]
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Someone who strangles, especially who murders by strangling.
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(informal) The mass death or destruction of trees; a disaster caused by or involving trees.
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