massacre vs battue

massacre and battue both are nouns.

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

As nouns, battue is a hyponym of massacre; that is, battue is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than massacre:

Other hyponyms of massacre include bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed.

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

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