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mass murder

[ mas mur-der ]

noun

  1. the act of killing a number of people in a single incident or over a short time period, involving more than two victims and typically a large number: The individual motives for mass murder vary greatly.

    He has written about mass murder by totalitarian regimes.

    The individual motives for mass murder vary greatly.

    The article is about five victims of a mass murder.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of mass murder1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Text messages and communications showed he held violent, extremist beliefs for years and admired mass murders, prosecutors said.

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The images provide a unique perspective on the Holocaust, chronicling S.S. officers going about their daily activities in a manner utterly divorced from the reality of the mass murder that was taking place nearby.

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But what it became by 1942 is the Auschwitz that sits in our shared memory, for by now it was an extermination camp, whose main purpose was mass murder.

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By the time the packages were delivered to neighbours, Rudakubana had already been researching mass murder and genocide online.

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Megrahi was found guilty of mass murder after standing trial at a Scottish court in the Netherlands and jailed for life, only to be released on compassionate grounds eight years later by the Scottish government.

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