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slaughter

[slaw-ter]

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noun

the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.

the brutal or violent killing of a person.

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.

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Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English slaghter, slahter, slauther (noun) < Old Norse slātr, earlier slāttr, slahtr

Related forms

slaugh·ter·er, noun

slaugh·ter·ing·ly, adverb

un·slaugh·tered, adjective

Synonyms
2. murder. 4–6. Slaughter, butcher, massacre all imply violent and bloody methods of killing. Slaughter and butcher, primarily referring to the killing of animals for food, are used also of the brutal or indiscriminate killing of human beings: to slaughter cattle; to butcher a hog. Massacre indicates a general slaughtering of helpless or unresisting victims: to massacre the peasants of a region.

Example Sentences

Slaughter on administrative leave until his contract expires.

Their closest living cousins, chimpanzees, also slaughter their own kind-in brutal attacks that primatologists increasingly view.

In addition, protest groups planning to land helicopters on the ice to film the slaughter may have to change their tactics.

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Slaughter on administrative leave until his contract expires.

Their closest living cousins, chimpanzees, also slaughter their own kind-in brutal attacks that primatologists increasingly view.

In addition, protest groups planning to land helicopters on the ice to film the slaughter may have to change their tactics.

It is their inadequate preparation for the day-to-day horrors that routinely slaughter their populations.

We slaughter goats and chickens, drink liquor, sing songs and dance.

They subsist on a rain-dependent crop and on raising a few scrawny donkeys, which they sell for cash or slaughter for meat.

Some were kept and sold as pets, some were going to go to slaughter.

It is the sport of butchers who visit villages to slaughter animals for harvest feasts.

But the slaughter of the country's pachyderms for the spurious healing power of their horns continues unchecked.

They led and forced their armys to slaughter innocents by the millions.

It truly is a sad day when this unnecessary slaughter of man and beast can happen.

Corn allows cows to get fatter faster and be ready for slaughter sooner.

Pigs destined for slaughter are often seen crammed excruciatingly tightly in cages on the backs of lorries.

I'd watched the slaughter as migrating wildebeests leaped into rivers, only to be caught between waiting jaws.

We slaughter thousands of pigs everyday and nobody gets convicted for murder.

There's nothing natural about factory farms and slaughter houses.

He told me how they calmly ordered the slaughter and of neighbors.

There will be slaughter when they start talking about farming.

Wholesale slaughter fueled by the international ivory trade has left only about ten thousand elephants alive in the region today.

It makes no sense to slaughter two cows to feed the growth of a small amount of in vitro meat.

It would be a shame to slaughter something wild and call it lunch.

The mutual distrust is an inevitable legacy of the civil war and the slaughter in which it ended last year.

His military conquests were frequently characterized by the wholesale slaughter of the vanquished.

Many people believe animals don't have souls, so it's okay to slaughter them.

Every television screen vibrated with debate about the slaughter.

Many organic fertilizers come from animal sources, either as slaughter byproducts or livestock manures.

Even with that level of rarity, the slaughter continued.

The days of outright slaughter are gone, but humans continue to pressure wildlife here in indirect ways.

If you lose your skepticism, you become sheep, led to the slaughter and deserving what you get.

Even in death, llamas can serve their human owners-some people slaughter them and eat their meat.

There was no way that a slaughter of the crowd would have been.

The founders would be horrified at the self slaughter today, in their name.

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noun

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World English Dictionary

slaughter (ˈslɔːtə)

—n
1.	the killing of animals, esp for food
2.	the savage killing of a person
3.	the indiscriminate or brutal killing of large numbers of people, as in war; massacre
4.	informal a resounding defeat

—vb
5.	to kill (animals), esp for food
6.	to kill in a brutal manner
7.	to kill indiscriminately or in large numbers
8.	informal to defeat resoundingly

[Old English sleaht; related to Old Norse slāttar hammering, slātr butchered meat, Old High German slahta, Gothic slauhts, German Schlacht battle]

'slaughterer

—n

'slaughterous

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

slaughter

c.1300, "killing of a cattle or sheep for food, killing of a person," from O.N. *slahtr, akin to slatr "a butchering, butcher meat," slatra "to slaughter," and slattr "a mowing;" related to sla "to strike" (see slay), from P.Gmc. *slukhtis. Meaning "killing of a large number

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of persons in battle" is attested from mid-14c. The verb is from 1530s. Slaughter-house is from late 14c.

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Slang Dictionary

murder definition

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to overwhelm; to beat someone in a sports contest. : We went out on the field prepared to slaughter them. The murdered us in the second half.

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Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Idioms & Phrases

slaughter

see like a lamb to the slaughter.

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