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slaughter

English

  1. 🔊 the killing of animals (as for food)
  2. 🔊 the savage and excessive killing of many people
  3. 🔊 a sound defeat
  4. 🔊 kill a large number of people indiscriminately
    “The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda”
  5. 🔊 kill (animals) usually for food consumption
    “They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 sacrificio slaughter
  2. 🔊 escabechina slaughter, destruction

Similar words

massacre mass murder carnage butchery thrashing walloping debacle drubbing trouncing whipping massacre mow down butcher annihilate annihilation assault attack bane barbarize batter battering blood bloodbath bloodletting