- The act of killing. - The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction
of life; carnage. - The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. - To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to
slay in battle. - To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Meaning of 'slaughter' (Princeton's WordNet)
1 . slaughter
[ v]
Meaning (1): - kill a large number of people indiscriminately
Example in sentence:
The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda
Meaning (2): - kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Example in sentence:
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter