Definition of 'slaughter'

Noun

1. the killing of animals (as for food)
2. a sound defeat
      Synonyms: thrashing walloping debacle drubbing trouncing whipping
3. the savage and excessive killing of many people
      Synonyms: massacre mass murder carnage butchery

Verb

1. kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
      Synonyms: butcher
2. kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
      Synonyms: massacre mow down

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