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slaughter   (TTS Sound)

The noun slaughter has 3 senses

• slaughter -- (the killing of animals (as for food))


• thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping -- (a sound defeat)


• slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)

The verb slaughter has 2 senses

• butcher, slaughter -- (kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter")


• massacre, slaughter, mow down -- (kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda")