About The Word Slaughter
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Slaughter
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What's The Definition Of Slaughter?
[n] the killing of animals (as for food)
[n] the savage and excessive killing of many people [n] a sound defeat [v] kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [v] kill; used of animals, but also used for people to indicate brutality Synonyms | Synonyms for Slaughter: butcher | carnage | debacle | drubbing | mass murder | massacre | massacre | mow down | thrashing | trouncing | walloping | whipping Related Terms | Find terms related to Slaughter: See Also | Alamo | Battle of Little Bighorn | Battle of the Little Bighorn | battue | bloodbath | bloodletting | bloodshed | butchering | butchery | chine | Custer's Last Stand | cut | defeat | execution | homicide | kill | kill | kill | killing | licking | Little Bighorn | murder | putting to death | slaying Slaughter In Webster's Dictionary \Slaugh"ter\, n. [OE. slautir, slaughter, slaghter,
Icel. sl[=a]tr slain flesh, modified by OE. slaught, slaht,
slaughter, fr. AS. sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root
of E. slay. See {Slay}, v. t., and cf. {Onslaught}.]
The act of killing. Specifically:
(a) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of
life; carnage.
On war and mutual slaughter bent. --Milton.
(b) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Syn: Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; havoc.
\Slaugh"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Slaughtered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Slaughtering}.] 1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. --Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts. |
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