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皆殺し (みなごろし) Japanese meaning | Kotomora

皆みな殺ごろし

み

な

ご

ろ

し

Freq.FrequencyTop 20,000

Meanings

1

noun

massacre; annihilation; wholesale slaughter

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

その村むらは一いち夜やにして皆みな殺ごろしにされた。
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.

Written forms

皆みな殺ごろしUsage87%
Standard kanji spelling; high-frequency news term.
みな殺ごろしUsage13%
search-only kanji form
Search-only mixed kana-kanji form.
鏖みなごろし
rarely-used kanji form
Rarely used single-kanji form.

Kanji

皆all, everything
殺kill, murder, butcher
鏖massacre, annihilation

Similar words

虐ぎゃく殺さつ
虐殺 emphasizes cruelty and brutality in killing, while 皆殺し focuses on the completeness of killing everyone.
全ぜん滅めつ
全滅 means total annihilation or destruction, often used for groups being wiped out in battle or disaster, but does not necessarily imply deliberate killing.

Etymology

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.