Antonyms for slaughter
ˈslɔ tərslaugh·ter

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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

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

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

1. slaughternoun

   Synonyms:
   butchery, killing

How to use slaughter in a sentence?

1. Adnan Abdelkarim:

   In the event the regime advances..., either we will die storming the Turkish wall and fleeing with our families...or slaughter ourselves by turning ourselves over.

2. Jeb Bush:

   I don't know at all about Donald Trump's views of leadership because he talks about himself the whole time, i have no clue. That's the point. He hasn't shared his views. When he talks about foreign policy, he talks about how Putin ought to go take care of ISIS and the week before it's ISIS ought to take care of Assad. He would send refugees back to Syria back to their slaughter.

3. Zeid Raad al-Hussein:

   If we attend to minority rights only after the slaughter has begun, then we have already failed.

4. Chris Murphy:

   We are made weaker in the eyes of the world when we willingly participate in war crimes, when we allow our partners to engage in the slaughter of innocents.

5. Doan Van Thanh:

   I am so happy now, my whole village is happy now, 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.

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