slaughter
IPA: sɫˈɔtɝ
noun
- (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
- A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- (rare) A mass destruction of non-living things.
- A rout or decisive defeat.
- A group of iguanas.
- A surname.
- A town in Louisiana.
verb
- (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.
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Examples of "slaughter" in Sentences
- They avenged the slaughter of thy people.
- He went willingly to the slaughter house.
- The bulls are slaughtered and the meat sold.
- The din of slaughters was heard in the hall.
- The army attacks and slaughters the villagers.
- The sad are slaughtered the world grows merry.
- The sixth day was marked as a prodigious slaughter.
- The attacking group slaughtered the people on the bluff.
- Celibacy is respected and the slaughter of animals is forbidden.
- Massacre manqué, we might call it – slaughter in all but a good aim.
- It's not as if the photos are showing the gruesome slaughter of the animal.
- 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."
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