SLAUGHTER

• (noun) the killing of animals (as for food)

• (noun) the savage and excessive killing of many people

  synonyms : butchery , carnage , mass murder , massacre

  Thousands were killed in the horrific carnage caused by the attacking enemy. -added by Aswathy_inlas

• (noun) a sound defeat

  synonyms : debacle , drubbing , thrashing , trouncing , walloping , whipping

• (verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately

  "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

  synonyms : massacre , mow down

• (verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption

  "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

  synonyms : butcher

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