Synonyms 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

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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. Portland Conservation Director Bob Sallinger:

   I think the word slaughter here is truly appropriate, we're talking about federal agents on boats blasting cormorants out of the sky with shotguns.

2. Amy Bauernschmidt:

   There is no more humbling sense of responsibility than to know you are entrusted with the care of the people who have chosen to protect our nation, thank you, Capt. Slaughter, for turning over the finest ship in the fleet.

3. Jill Robinson:

   Previously, the Animal Protection Act only covered the slaughter and sale of dog and cat meat, but this amendment specifically prohibiting the actual consumption of dog meat today is welcome.

4. Republican Representative Dana Rohrabacher:

   Let me suggest that attitude of our European friends may well be changing in the next six months or so when they realize that the slaughter that’s taking place in Paris and now in Brussels is part of an international movement to destroy Western civilization and replace it with a caliphate.

5. Colonel Gulmurod Khalimov:

   We are coming to you, God willing, we are coming to you with slaughter.