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.
SLAUGHTERv.
Websters Unabridged Dictionary (1913) • 1913
To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
slaughternoun
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The killing of animals, generally for food. | A massacre; the killing of a large number of people. | A mass destruction of non-living things. | A rout or decisive defeat. | A group of iguanas.
slaughterverb
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To butcher animals, generally for food. | To massacre people in large numbers. | To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.
Slaughtername
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A surname. | A town in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, from the surname.
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