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Synonyms for slaughter
ˈslɔ tərslaugh·ter

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English Synonyms and Antonyms3.0 / 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.

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  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

  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

  4. butcher, slaughterverb

    kill (animals) usually for food consumption

    "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

    Synonyms:
    butcher, massacre, mow down

  5. massacre, slaughter, mow downverb

    kill a large number of people indiscriminately

    "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

    Synonyms:
    butcher, massacre, mow down

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. slaughternoun

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

  2. slaughterverb

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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. slaughternoun

    Synonyms:
    butchery, killing

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How to use slaughter in a sentence?

  1. Carlos Conde:

    Dela Rosa should be reminded that he, too, will answer for his complicity in the slaughter of thousands.

  2. Gyula Nagy:

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

  3. 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.

  4. Maryam Rajavi:

    Any interaction and cooperation with the clerical regime will be in service of the repression and slaughter of the Iranian people, and its nuclear weapons ambitions, and fueling wars in the region.

  5. Doug Houghton:

    It won't be a constant pressure, and I don't think it'll be beyond the slaughter capacity, but even if you see things get within 50,000 head of the U.S. capacity, it's going to be hard for the market to absorb that much product at one time.


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