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slaughter
1[ slaw-ter ]
noun
- the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
- the brutal or violent killing of a person.
Synonyms:
- the killing of great numbers of people or animals indiscriminately; carnage:
the slaughter of war.
verb (used with object)
- to kill or butcher (animals), especially for food.
- to kill in a brutal or violent manner.
- to slay in great numbers; massacre.
- Informal. to defeat thoroughly; trounce:
They slaughtered our team.
Slaughter
2[ slaw-ter ]
noun
- Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
slaughter
/ ˈɔːə /
noun
- the killing of animals, esp for food
- the savage killing of a person
- the indiscriminate or brutal killing of large numbers of people, as in war; massacre
- informal.a resounding defeat
verb
- to kill (animals), esp for food
- to kill in a brutal manner
- to kill indiscriminately or in large numbers
- informal.to defeat resoundingly
Derived Forms
- ˈܲٱ, noun
- ˈܲٱdzܲ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ܲt· noun
- ܲt·Բ· adverb
- ܲ·ܲt adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of slaughter1
Word History and Origins
Origin of slaughter1
Idioms and Phrases
see like a lamb to the slaughter .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Many of the townsfolk don’t make it, and their slaughter is but a prelude to Joel surrendering to the slow death Abby promises in the second season premiere.
“I have to slaughter these idiots for destroying my country,” Duterte declared in his inaugural State of the Nation Address.
If a low-pathogenic virus “happens to get into a broiler meat flock, the birds don’t get sick and they go onto slaughter,” he said.
Two decades of slaughter later, he was proven wrong.
“Yes, maybe it’s calm during the day. But at night they come and slaughter you.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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