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Slaughter   /slˈɔtər/   Listen
Slaughter

noun
1.
The killing of animals (as for food).
2.
A sound defeat.  Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping.
3.
The savage and excessive killing of many people.  Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre.
verb
(past & past part. slaughtered; pres. part. slaughtering)
1.
Kill (animals) usually for food consumption.  Synonym: butcher.
2.
Kill a large number of people indiscriminately.  Synonyms: massacre, mow down.



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... With the seven Spaniards came one of the three savages, who, as I said, were their prisoners formerly; and with them also came the savage whom the Englishmen had left bound hand and foot at the tree; for it seems they came that way, saw the slaughter of the seven men, and unbound the eighth, and brought him along with them; where, however, they were obliged to bind again, as they had the two others who were left when the third ...
— The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe • Daniel Defoe

... Representative appealed against the exemption of William Blake, aged 35, unmarried, a slaughterman in the employment of Mr. George Rigg, pork butcher. The Military Representative suggested that Mr. Rigg should slaughter himself. Mr. Rigg stated that he could not ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 16, 1917. • Various

... what Tom will see, and perhaps you and I shall see it too. And then we shall not be sorry because we cannot get a Gairfowl to stuff, much less find gairfowl enough to drive them into stone pens and slaughter them, as the old Norsemen did, or drive them on board along a plank till the ship was victualled with them, as the old English and French rovers used to do, of whom dear old Hakluyt tells: but we shall remember what ...
— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

... throops here? We'll lave the English to clane up the threnches,' and on that they packs the Irish off and marches thim thousands of miles intil Siberia. Ah! 'twas the dhrop thim Germins got when they came shtrugglin' along wan day and run up aginst the ould Tinth agin. There was tarrible slaughter that day, and the inimy bruk in great disorther, and is now trying to escape down ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 26, 1916 • Various

... as the weeks went on. Wally had gone to Queensland, to visit married brothers who were all the "people" he possessed; and Jim, bereft of his chum, threw himself energetically into the training of the substitute. Bob learned to slaughter a bullock and kill a sheep—being instructed that the job in winter was not a circumstance to what it would be in summer, when flies would abound. He never pretended to like this branch of learning, but stuck to it doggedly, since it was explained to him that the man who could not be his ...
— Back To Billabong • Mary Grant Bruce


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