English noun: slaughter |
1. | slaughter (act) the killing of animals (as for food) |
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| Broader (hypernym) | kill, killing, putting to death |
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| Part meronym | butchering, butchery |
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2. | slaughter (event) a sound defeat |
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| Synonyms | debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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| Broader (hypernym) | defeat, licking |
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3. | slaughter (act) the savage and excessive killing of many people |
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| Synonyms | butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre |
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| Broader (hypernym) | execution, murder, slaying |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed |
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| Instance hyponym | Alamo, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, Little Bighorn |
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