皆みな殺ごろし

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Meanings

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massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter

Refers to killing everyone in a group, leaving no survivors. Often used in historical or violent contexts.

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The village was massacred in a single night.

敵てき軍ぐんは捕ほ虜りょの皆みな殺ごろしを命めいじた。

The enemy army ordered the wholesale slaughter of the prisoners.

〈相あい手て〉を皆みな殺ごろしにするto massacre/wipe out a group of people
敵てきの部ぶ隊たいを皆みな殺ごろしにした。
They wiped out the entire enemy unit.
皆みな殺ごろしに遭あうto be massacred, to have everyone in a group killed
村むら人びとたちは皆みな殺ごろしに遭あった。
The villagers were all massacred.

虐ぎゃく殺さつN1
虐殺 emphasizes the cruelty and brutality of the killing, while 皆殺し focuses on the fact that no one in the group is left alive.
全ぜん滅めつN1
全滅 means total annihilation or wipeout, often from battle or disaster and without implying intentional killing, whereas 皆殺し specifically means deliberately killing every member of a group.
大たい量りょう虐ぎゃく殺さつ
大量虐殺 refers to genocide or mass killing on a large scale, while 皆殺し can describe wiping out even a small group so that no one survives.

見み殺ごろし
皆殺し means massacring everyone, while 見殺し means passively letting someone die by not helping; the two words look and sound similar but describe very different acts.

Compound of 皆 (みな, 'all, everyone') + 殺し (ごろし, the nominalized stem of 殺す 'to kill'). The reading ごろし is a rendaku form of ころし.