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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slaughter |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, bloodbath, bloodletting, butchery, carnage, extermination, fighting, gore, killing, massacre, murder, onslaught |
| Antonyms: | peace |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, blitz, blood, blood and guts, blood bath, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine, search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, taking out, warfare, wasting |
| Main Entry: | fighting |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | battle, encounter |
| Synonyms: | argument, battle royal, beef, bloodshed, blowup, bout, brannigan, brawling, brush, combat, conflict, contention, dispute, donnybrook, exchange, flap, fracas, free-for-all, go, hassle, hell broke loose, hostility, joust, match, melee, mix, punch out, riot, roughhouse, row, rowdy, rumble, rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap*, scrimmage, scuffle, set-to, spat, strife, struggle, tiff, war, warfare, words, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | ceasefire, peace, surrender |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | homicide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | assassination, big chill, bloodshed, bump-off, butchery, carnage, crime, death, erase*, foul play, hit, manslaughter, murder, offing, ride, rubout, slaying |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
| Antonyms: | birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | killing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | murder |
| Synonyms: | assassination, bloodshed, bumping off, capital punishment, carnage, execution, extermination, homicide, manslaughter, massacre, slaughter, slaying |
| Main Entry: | massacre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing of many |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, assassination, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, extermination, genocide, internecion, murder, slaughter, slaying |
| Main Entry: | mortality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | bloodshed, carnage, deadliness, destruction, dying, extinction, fatality, killing, lethality, loss of life |
| Antonyms: | birth, life |
| Main Entry: | murder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, crime, death, destruction, dispatching, felony, foul play, hit*, homicide, knifing, liquidation, lynching, manslaughter, massacre, off*, offing, one-way ticket, rub out, shooting, slaying, taking out, terrorism, the business, the works |
| Notes: | the general term for the killing of a person by another is homicide; murder is either the intentional killing or malicious killing of another; manslaughter is the unintentional, accidental killing of another through carelessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | revolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drastic action or change, often in politics |
| Synonyms: | anarchy, bloodshed, cabal, coup, coup d'état, crime, debacle, destruction, disorder, foment, golpe, guerrilla activity, innovation, insubordination, insurgency, metamorphosis, mutiny, outbreak, overthrow, overturn, plot, radical change, rebellion, reformation, reversal, revolt, rising, row, shake-up, shift, strife, strike, subversion, transformation, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnover, underground activity, unrest, upheaval, uprising, uproar, upset, violence |
| Notes: | rebellion is open resistance to a government or authority; revolution is a rebellion that succeeds in overthrowing the government and establishing a new one |
| Antonyms: | stagnation, submission |
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