by Eugène Delacroix.]]The primary meaning given to massacre (as a noun) by the Oxford English Dictionary(OED) is "The indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers; an instance of this" and a similar definition for its use as a verb. The OED goes on to list several other usages of the word both as a noun for example "In the names of certain massacres of history" and as a verb, but most of these other meanings are either less com