ぎゃくさつ
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. slaughter; massacre
Pitch accent
ぎゃ
くさつ
Used in vocabulary (36 in total)
massacre; mass slaughter; genocide; holocaust
Massacre of the Innocent (infanticide by Herod that appears in the New Testament)
My Lai Massacre (1968); Son My Massacre
Rwandan genocide (1994)
Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
Herero and Namaqua genocide
Phong Nhị and Phong Nhất massacre
Hà My massacre
Dachau liberation reprisals
1982 Hama massacre
Examples (2 in total)
The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.
The general ordered the massacre of all war prisoners.