slaughter
(noun) the killing of animals (as for food)
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
(noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people
thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
(noun) a sound defeat
massacre, slaughter, mow down
(verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; “The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda”
butcher, slaughter
(verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption; “They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Slaughter
A surname.
A town in Louisiana.
• Laughters, laughster, laughters, laughtres, lethargus, slaughtre
slaughter (countable and uncountable, plural slaughters)
(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
A rout or decisive defeat.
• (a massacre): manslaughter
slaughter (third-person singular simple present slaughters, present participle slaughtering, simple past and past participle slaughtered)
(transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food
(transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers
(transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner
• Laughters, laughster, laughters, laughtres, lethargus, slaughtre
Source: Wiktionary
Slaugh"ter, n. Etym: [OE. slautir, slaughter, slaghter, Icel. slatr slain flesh, modified by OE. slaught, slaht, slaughter, fr. AS. sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root of E. slay. See Slay, v. t., and cf. Onslaught.]
Definition: The act of killing. Specifically: (a) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton.
(b) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Syn.
– Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; havoc.
Slaugh"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaughtered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaughtering.]
1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.
2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 January 2025
(noun) a slight amount or degree of difference; “a tad too expensive”; “not a tad of difference”; “the new model is a shade better than the old one”
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