Defenition of the word slaughter
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Defenition of the word slaughter
- The killing and butchering of animals for food or other animal products.
- A ruthless killing of a great number of people.
- To kill animals for food.
- kill; used of animals, but also used for people to indicate brutality
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
- the killing of animals (as for food)
- the savage and excessive killing of people
- a sound defeat
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Synonyms for the word slaughter
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- beat
- butcher
- butchery
- carnage
- crush
- debacle
- defeat
- drubbing
- hammer
- kill
- killing
- massacre
- mow down
- murder
- overwhelm
- rout
- slay
- thrash
- thrashing
- trounce
- trouncing
- walloping
- whipping
Similar words in the slaughter
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- slaughter
- slaughter's
- slaughtered
- slaughterer
- slaughterer's
- slaughterers
- slaughterhouse
- slaughterhouse's
- slaughterhouses
- slaughtering
- slaughters
Meronymys for the word slaughter
Hyponyms for the word slaughter
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- Alamo
- Battle of Little Bighorn
- Battle of the Little Bighorn
- battue
- bloodbath
- bloodletting
- bloodshed
- chine
- Custer's Last Stand
- Little Bighorn
Hypernyms for the word slaughter
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- defeat
- execution
- homicide
- kill
- killing
- licking
- murder
- putting to death
- slaying
- surname
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