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Slaughter

noun

The killing of animals (as for food).

A sound defeat. Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping.

The savage and excessive killing of many people. Synonyms: butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre.

verb

(past & past part. slaughtered; pres. part. slaughtering)

Kill (animals) usually for food consumption. Synonym: butcher.

Kill a large number of people indiscriminately. Synonyms: massacre, mow down.

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"Slaughter" Quotes from Famous Books

... anxiety. The anxiety was, so to speak, a dear and beloved departed.... And Diva did not feel so sure that the end was so beautiful and wonderful. Her grandfather, Miss Mapp had reason to know, had been a butcher, and probably some inherited indifference to slaughter lurked ...

— Miss Mapp • Edward Frederic Benson

... in these valleys been preserved in unexampled strength and vigour. That religion, which above all others was founded and propagated by the sword—the tenets and principles of which are instinct with incentives to slaughter and which in three continents has produced fighting breeds of men—stimulates a wild and merciless fanaticism. The love of plunder, always a characteristic of hill tribes, is fostered by the spectacle ...

— The Story of the Malakand Field Force • Sir Winston S. Churchill

... Ingin and about the head of the Neversink. The treetops for miles were full of their nests, while the going and coming of the old birds kept up a constant din. But the gunners soon got wind of it, and from far and near were wont to pour in during the spring, and to slaughter both old and young. This practice soon had the effect of driving the pigeons all away, and now only a few ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... herder of his at Dunmore's slaughter-house. I saw him jailed at Fortress Pitt; I saw him freed, too. And one fine day in '76, a-lolling at my ease in the north, what should I hear but a jolly conch-horn blowing in the forest, and out of it ...

— The Reckoning • Robert W. Chambers

... course of events during the early winter of 1862-63 had resulted in a grievous loss of morale in the Army of the Potomac. The useless slaughter of Marye's Heights was, after a few weeks, succeeded by that most huge of all strategic jokes, the Mud March; and Gen. Burnside retired from a position he had never sought, to the satisfaction, and, be it said to his credit, with the warm personal regard, of all. Sumner, whom the weight of years ...

— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge

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