大量殺人|たいりょうさつじんtairyousatsujin

1. nounmass killing; mass murder; bloodbath

• Synonym殺戮さつりくWrittenWritten/formal prose word for slaughtering people in batches by cruel means; stresses the brutality of the method.
• Synonym大虐殺だいぎゃくさつNeutralLarge-scale, cruel slaughter; used mostly of war and ethnic persecution, and often colored by history rather than a single criminal case.
• Synonym大量虐殺たいりょうぎゃくさつNeutralKilling large numbers in a short time, or systematically wiping out a specific group; like 「大虐殺」, it fits war and persecution more than everyday crime.

「大量殺人」 is the default for incidents where many are killed at once, usually a criminal case. For war or ethnic persecution use 「大虐殺」 or 「大量虐殺」; the latter also covers organized extermination of a group. 「殺戮」 is a written word for cruel slaughter.

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1. 多おおくの人ひとを一度いちどに殺ころすこと。また、そのような事件じけん。