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bloodbath collapse: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"

massacre collapse: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

holocaust collapse: an act of great destruction and loss of life; the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler

suicide collapse: the act of killing yourself; "it is a crime to commit suicide"; a person who kills himself intentionally

euthanasia collapse: the act of killing someone painlessly (especially someone suffering from an incurable illness)

requiem collapse: a Mass celebrated for the dead; a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead

bloodletting collapse: formerly used as a treatment to reduce excess blood (one of the four humors of medieval medicine)

stoning collapse: pelting with stones; punishment inflicted by throwing stones at the victim (even unto death)

Mass collapse: (Roman Catholic Church and Protestant Churches) the celebration of the Eucharist; the property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field; a sequence of prayers constituting the Christian Eucharistic rite; "the priest said Mass"; a musical setting for a Mass; "they played a Mass composed by Beethoven"; an ill-structured collection of similar things (objects or people); a body of matter without definite shape; "a huge ice mass"; join together into a mass or collect or form a mass; "Crowds were massing outside the palace"

suttee collapse: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband

devastate collapse: overwhelm or overpower; "He was devastated by his grief when his son died"

slaughter collapse: the killing of animals (as for food); the savage and excessive killing of many people

martyrdom collapse: death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause

introit collapse: a composition of vocal music that is appropriate for opening church services

vandalize collapse: destroy wantonly, as through acts of vandalism; "vandalize the park"

solemnize collapse: make solemn and grave; "This ceremony solemnized our hearts"; perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies; observe or perform with dignity or gravity; "The King solemnized this day of morning"

bloodshed collapse: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"

cantata collapse: a musical composition for voices and orchestra based on a religious text

radiology collapse: the branch of medical science dealing with the medical use of X-rays or other penetrating radiation

plurality collapse: (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes); the state of being plural; "to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable"

poisoning collapse: the act of giving poison to a person or animal with the intent to kill; the physiological state produced by a poison or other toxic substance

shipwreck collapse: a wrecked ship (or a part of one); an accident that destroys a ship at sea; an irretrievable loss; "that was the shipwreck of their romance"; destroy a ship; "The vessel was shipwrecked"; cause to experience shipwreck; "They were shipwrecked in one of the mysteries at sea"; suffer failure, as in some enterprise; ruin utterly; "You have shipwrecked my career"

incinerate collapse: become reduced to ashes; "The paper incinerated quickly"

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