massacre

C637 concept

A massacre is the deliberate and brutal killing of a large number of defenseless or unresisting people or animals, often carried out in a single event or short period of time.

Observed surface forms (11)

  • mass murder ×4
  • atrocity ×3
  • mass shooting ×3
  • pogrom ×3
  • mass violence ×2
  • Holocaust massacre ×1
  • Nazi German extermination campaign ×1
  • antisemitic pogrom ×1
  • shooting incident ×1
  • white supremacist attack ×1

Instances (54)