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slaughter

('sl/O/t/@/r )

noun (n)

the killing of animals (as for food)(noun.act)

source: wordnet30
a sound defeat(noun.event)

Synonym:
debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping

source: wordnet30
the savage and excessive killing of many people(noun.act)

Synonym:
butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre

source: wordnet30
The act of killing.(noun)

source: webster1913

verb (v)

kill (animals) usually for food consumption(verb.contact)

Example:
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter.

Synonym:
butcher

source: wordnet30
kill a large number of people indiscriminately(verb.change)

Synonym:
massacre, mow down

source: wordnet30
To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.(verb)

source: webster1913

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