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slaughter - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'slaughter' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Slaughter [ v. t.]
- 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