The Only Use of
massacre
in
Gulliver's Travels
- He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting "it was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice, and ambition, could produce."†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(massacre) the savage and excessive killing of many people
or:
to defeat an opponent by a wide margin