Meaning of SLAUGHTER
| Pronunciation: | | 'slotur
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- [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
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| | Synonyms: | | butcher, carnage, debacle, drubbing, mass murder, massacre, massacre, mow down, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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| | 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 | |
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\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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