Definition of Slaughter

Verb: slaughter  slo-tu(r)

  1. Kill (animals) usually for food consumption
    "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter";
    - butcher
     
  2. Kill a large number of people indiscriminately
    "The Hutus slaughtered the Tutsis in Rwanda";
    - massacre, mow down, butcher
     
  3. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
    "We slaughtered the other team on Sunday!";
    - cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, trounce, wipe the floor, whale [N. Amer], hammer, tromp [N. Amer], smoke [N. Amer], muller [Brit], beat hollow
Noun: slaughter  slo-tu(r)
  1. The killing of animals (as for food)
     
  2. A sound defeat
    - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping, hammering, débâcle, smackdown [N. Amer]
     
  3. The savage and excessive killing of many people
    - massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery

See also:
slaty
slaughtered

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