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nounthe savage and excessive killing of many people
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verbkill a large number of people indiscriminatelytype of:
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"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"verbkill (animals) usually for food consumption
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nouna sound defeat
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nounthe killing of animals (as for food)type of:part of:
Definition that contains slaughter
- sack the plundering of a place by an army or mob; usually involves destruction and slaughter
- butcher a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- bloodshed indiscriminate slaughter
- carcass the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food
- bloodbath indiscriminate slaughter
- fattening subject to or used in the process of finishing or fattening up for slaughter
- halal (Islam) meat from animals that have been slaughtered in the prescribed way according to the shariah
- bloodletting indiscriminate slaughter
- knacker someone who buys up old horses for slaughter
- slaughterer a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market