Synonyms for Slaughter
ˈslɔ tərslaugh·ter

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. slaughter

   To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.

   Synonyms:
   assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, kill, massacre, murder, put to death, slay

   Preposition:
   To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.

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1. slaughternoun

   the killing of animals (as for food)

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, carnage, massacre

2. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whippingnoun

   a sound defeat

   Synonyms:
   whacking, beating, flogging, whipstitch, mass murder, whipping, whipstitching, lacing, carnage, debacle, walloping, drubbing, butchery, thrashing, licking, fiasco, trouncing, massacre, lashing, tanning, flagellation, slaughter

3. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcheryverb

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, shambles, massacre, slaughter

4. butcher, slaughterverb

   kill (animals) usually for food consumption

   "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

   Synonyms:
   butcher, massacre, mow down, slaughter

5. massacre, slaughter, mow downverb

   kill a large number of people indiscriminately

   "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

   Synonyms:
   butcher, massacre, mow down, slaughter

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1. • Defeat
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1. slaughternoun

   Synonyms:
   massacre, MURDER, carnage, bloodshed, butchery, ASSASSINATION, MANSLAUGHTER

2. slaughterverb

   Synonyms:
   massacre, slay, kill, butcher, despatch, MURDER

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. slaughternoun

   Synonyms:
   butchery, killing

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1. List of paraphrases for "slaughter":

   slaughtering, massacre, culling, felling, sacrifice, cull, slaughterhouse, carnage, killing, butchery, logging, abattoir, slaughterhouses, defeat, beef, slaughtered, abattoirs

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1. Donald Trump:

   Hillary Clinton, for months, and despite so many attacks, has repeatedly refused to even say the words ‘radical Islam,’ just a few weeks before the San Bernardino slaughter, Clinton explained her refusal to say the words. She said Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people, nothing to do with terrorism. That is Hillary Clinton.

2. Doan Van Thanh:

   We will hold a party on Sunday and anyone can come and join the party. We will slaughter some pigs for the party. My daughter particularly likes fried fish, so we will prepare that too.

3. Gyula Nagy:

   The price of our slaughter pigs has ... dropped by 10 percent, plus our export possibilities have also decreased.

4. Akram Muhammad Mahmud:

   The tragedy was so big that nobody felt like they were the only victim, what we can do now is understand the reasons why we have war outbreaks, and the slaughter of civilians must be stopped.

5. Zhang Huahua:

   The messy slaughter of numerous dogs transported to Yulin without inspection severely damages public order, popular custom and the environment.