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English noun: slaughter

1. slaughter (act) the killing of animals (as for food)


Broader (hypernym)kill, killing, putting to death


Part meronymbutchering, butchery

2. slaughter (event) a sound defeat


Synonymsdebacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping


Broader (hypernym)defeat, licking

3. slaughter (act) the savage and excessive killing of many people


Synonymsbutchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre


Broader (hypernym)execution, murder, slaying


Narrower (hyponym)battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed


Instance hyponymAlamo, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, Little Bighorn


English verb: slaughter

1. slaughter (contact) kill (animals) usually for food consumption


SamplesThey slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter.


Synonymsbutcher


Pattern of useSomebody ----s something.
Somebody ----s somebody


Broader (hypernym)kill


Narrower (hyponym)chine


Entailcut

2. slaughter (change) kill a large number of people indiscriminately


SamplesThe Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda.


ExamplesThey want to slaughter the prisoners


Synonymsmassacre, mow down


Pattern of useSomebody ----s somebody


Broader (hypernym)kill









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