- slaughter - the killing of animals (as for food)
--1 is a kind of killing, kill, putting to death
--1 is a part of butchery, butcheringDerived form: verb slaughter1 - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping - a sound defeat
--2 is a kind of defeat, licking
- slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people
--3 is a kind of murder, slaying, execution
--3 has particulars:bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue; Alamo; Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand Derived form: verb slaughter2
- butcher, slaughter - kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
--1 is one way to kill
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun slaughter1, noun slaughterer1
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- massacre, slaughter, mow down - kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
--2 is one way to kill
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun slaughter3
They want to slaughter the prisoners