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Meaning of massacree | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
/ˈmæ.sə.kɹi/

Definitions

  1. One who has been killed in a massacre.
  2. A bizarre and improbable sequence of events creating great confusion and fuss.
    dialectal

Examples

“For several years after they ravaged many places with fire and sword, committing many horrible barbarities, as their; countrymen settled here, joined them on all occasions, till Æthelred ordered a general massacree of them, which was executed November 13, 1002, which was severely revenged afterwards;”
“The Fourth of July, by the way, also offers tempting possibilities for a massacree. I know a man in Rhode Island whose father used to go out and shoot a deer every time the date came around, on the safe assumption that the game warden would think the shot part of the celebration.”
“Four years before his death on the Washita, Cheyenne chief Black Kettle had survived the infamous massacree at Sand Creek, Colorado Territory. Colonel J. M. Chivington, a former Methodist minister and commander of the Military District of Colorado, led the attack on November 30, 1864.”
“Suffice it to say, that no very pleasant feelings existed (as indeed may easily be believed) between the families of the massacrors, and the massacrees.”
“The battle scene with himself in the role of massacree was not overly inviting.”
“In the prologue to Black Lamb, West wrote of foreign travellers 'who return with a pet Balkan people established in their hearts as suffering and innocent, eternally the massacree and never the massacrer', adding: ...”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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