battue vs massacre

battue and massacre both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
battue	Yes	No	No	No
massacre	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, massacre is a hypernym of battue; that is, massacre is a word with a broader meaning than battue:

Other hypernyms of battue include butchery, carnage, mass murder, slaughter.

battue (noun)	massacre (noun)
a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter	the savage and excessive killing of many people
indiscriminate slaughter

battue (verb)	massacre (verb)
	kill a large number of people indiscriminately