massacre

n : the wanton killing of many people [syn: {mass murder}]

v : kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus

massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: {slaughter}, {mow

down}]

massage

Vague term used to describe "smooth" transformations of a data

set into a different form, especially transformations that do

not lose information. Connotes less pain than {munch} or

{crunch}. "He wrote a program that massages {X bitmap} files

into {GIF} format." Compare {slurp}.

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