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Definition
the savage and excessive killing of many people
or:
to defeat an opponent by a wide margin
or:
to defeat an opponent by a wide margin
- I read of men concerned in public affairs, governing or massacring their species.Chapter 15 (23% in)
- Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.Chapter 22 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "massacre" in Frankenstein.
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