All 4 Uses of
massacre
in
One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Six months after the massacre, when the wounded had recovered and the last flowers on the mass grave had withered, Aureliano Segundo went to fetch her from the distant city where she lived with her father and he married her in Macondo with a noisy celebration that lasted twenty days.†
Chpt 10
- Several hours must have passed since the massacre because the corpses had the same temperature as a plaster in autumn and the same consistency of petrified foam that it had, and those who had put them in the car had had time to pile them up in the same way in which they transported bunches of bananas.†
Chpt 15
- He went through the small square by the station and he saw the fritter stands piled one on top of the other and he could find no trace of the massacre.†
Chpt 15 *
- He did not believe the version of the massacre or the nightmare trip of the train loaded with corpses traveling toward the sea either.†
Chpt 15
Definition:
crushing defeat or brutal, overwhelming attack — used figuratively in competition and literally for violent killings