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Definition of Slaughter
1. Verb. Kill (animals) usually for food consumption. "They want to slaughter the prisoners "; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
Specialized synonyms: Chine
Generic synonyms: Kill
Entails: Cut
Derivative terms: Butcher, Butcher, Butchery, Butchery, Butchery, Slaughterer
2. Noun. The killing of animals (as for food).
3. Verb. Kill a large number of people indiscriminately. "They want to slaughter the prisoners "; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
4. Noun. A sound defeat.
Generic synonyms: Defeat, Licking
Derivative terms: Drub, Thrash, Trounce, Wallop, Whip
5. Noun. The savage and excessive killing of many people.
Generic synonyms: Execution, Murder, Slaying
Specialized synonyms: Battue, Bloodbath, Bloodletting, Bloodshed
Specialized synonyms: Alamo, Battle Of Little Bighorn, Battle Of The Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, Little Bighorn
Derivative terms: Butcher, Massacre, Slaughterous
Definition of Slaughter
1. n. The act of killing.
2. v. t. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
Definition of Slaughter
1. Noun. The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal). ¹
2. Noun. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people. ¹
3. Noun. A rout or decisive defeat. ¹
4. Verb. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food ¹
5. Verb. (transitive) To massacre people in large numbers ¹
6. Verb. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slaughter
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Slaughter
1. The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. "On war and mutual slaughter bent." (Milton) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Synonym: Carnage, massacre, butchery, murder, havoc. Origin: OE. Slautir, slaughter, slaghter, Icel. Slatr slain flesh, modified by OE. Slaught, slaht, slaughter, fr. AS. Sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root of E. Slay. See Slay, and cf. Onslaught. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaughter
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