slaughter

IPA: sɫˈɔtɝ

(transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.
(transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
(transitive) To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.

Examples of "slaughter" in Sentences

Massacre manqué, we might call it – slaughter in all but a good aim.
Indeed, slaughter is something meat-eaters don't want to think too much about.
This slaughter is the first one in history in which it is argued (by the IDF) that there are no civilians.
The real reason for this slaughter is they are over-fishing and want to kill the competition for the fish.
There was a statement coming from the Islamist militants, rejoicing in what they called the slaughter of yet another American hostage.
They have continued with the dolphin slaughter this year, and there has been a quiet standoff between the protesters and the fishermen.
Katshi said, complaining the world body had done nothing to prevent what he called the slaughter of Congolese civilians by foreign armies.
Hitler made the same efforts to stir his people to fury against what he called the slaughter of Germans in Poland and in Czechoslovakia and the conspiracies of the Jews and the West.
The most penetrating and iconoclastic response to this sort of reasoning came from the writer Isaac Bashevis Singer in his story "The Letter Writer," in which he called the slaughter of animals the "eternal Treblinka."