Slaughter

Quick meaning: Slaughter is a noun meaning (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.

Meaning

(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.

More Meanings

1. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
2. A rout or decisive defeat.
3. (collective) A group of iguanas.
4. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.
5. (transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
6. (transitive) To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.
7. (rare) A mass destruction of non-living things.

Example Sentences

Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.

Therefore cheere vp your mindes, prepare to fight, He that can take or ſlaughter Tamburlaine, Shall rule the Prouince of Albania.

There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.

[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.

Word Forms

• slaughters
• slaughtre
• slaughtering
• slaughtered

Synonyms for slaughter

Depending on context, synonyms include mess, carnage, debacle, butchery, butcher, thrashing.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include butchery, butcher, whipping, thrashing, drubbing, massacre.

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