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1. (n.) slaughter
the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., esp. for food.
2. slaughter
a brutal or violent killing, esp. the killing of great numbers of people or animals indiscriminately; carnage.
3. (v.t.) slaughter
to kill or butcher (animals), esp. for food.
4. slaughter
to kill in a brutal or violent manner.
5. slaughter
to slay in great numbers; massacre.
Etymology: (1250–1300; < ON slātr, earlier slāttr, slahtr; akin to slay)
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| Definition of 'slaughter' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) slaughter
the killing of animals (as for food)
2. (noun) thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
a sound defeat
3. (verb) slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
the savage and excessive killing of many people
4. (verb) butcher, slaughter
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
5. (verb) massacre, slaughter, mow down
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
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1. (noun) slaughter
a situation in which many people are killed
the slaughter of innocent people
2. slaughter
the process of killing animals for meat
cattle being prepared for slaughter; violent invaders who slaughtered women and children; humane ways of slaughtering animals
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| Definition of 'slaughter' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (verb) slaughter
the act of killing
2. (verb) slaughter
the extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage
3. (verb) slaughter
the act of killing cattle or other beasts for market
4. (verb) slaughter
to visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle
5. (verb) slaughter
to butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts
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Sense: the killing of people or animals in large numbers, cruelly and usually unnecessarily
Many people protested at the annual slaughter of seals.
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 Afrikaans: slagting |
 Arabic: مَذْبَحَه، مَجْزَرَه |
 Bulgarian: клане |
 Brazilian: massacre |
 Czech: vybíjení |
 German: das Abschlachten |
 Danish: slagtning; blodbad |
 Greek: σφαγή |
 Spanish: masacre |
 Estonian: tapmine, mahanottimine |
 Farsi: قتل عام |
 Finnish: verilöyly |
 French: massacre |
 Hebrew: שְׁחִיטָה |
 Hindi: नरसंहार |
 Croatian: pokolj, krvoproliće |
 Hungarian: (tömeg)mészárlás |
 Indonesian: pembantaian |
 Icelandic: slátrun; blóðsúthelling |
 Italian: massacro |
 Japanese: 虐殺 |
 Korean: 학살 |
 Lithuanian: žudymas |
 Latvian: (masu) slepkavošana; (mas |
 Malay: pembunuhan |
 Dutch: slachting |
 Norwegian: (ned)slakting, blodbad |
 Polish: rzeź |
 Persian: قتل عام |
 Pashto: حلالكه، حلالونه، وژنه، كو |
 Portuguese: massacre |
 Romanian: masacru |
 Russian: бойня, убийство |
 Slovak: zabíjanie |
 Slovenian: pokol |
 Serbian: pokolj |
 Swedish: slakt |
 Thai: การฆ่าอย่างทารุณ |
 Turkish: katliam |
 Taiwanese: 屠殺 |
 Ukrainian: кровопролиття; різанина |
 Urdu: قتل عام |
 Vietnamese: sự sát sinh, sự tàn sát |
 Chinese: 屠杀 |
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