ぎゃくさつ
Meanings
Noun
Verb (する)
1. slaughter; massacre
Kanji used
oppress
kill
Pitch accent
ぎゃ
くさつ
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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)
Dachau liberation reprisals
Nanking Massacre (1937); Rape of Nanking
Examples (2 in total)
The slaughter of the prisoners was a barbarous act.
The general ordered the massacre of all war prisoners.