All 3 Uses of
massacre
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- The horrible massacre, days and nights long, which, within a few rounds of the clock, was to set a great mark of blood upon the blessed garnering time of harvest, was as far out of his knowledge as if it had been a hundred thousand years away.†
Chpt 3.1
- That, in the prison he had found a self-appointed Tribunal sitting, before which the prisoners were brought singly, and by which they were rapidly ordered to be put forth to be massacred, or to be released, or (in a few cases) to be sent back to their cells.†
Chpt 3.4
- Every one of those had perished in the massacre; every human creature he had since cared for and parted with, had died on the scaffold.†
Chpt 3.6 *
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