| VERB | contact | slaughter, butcher | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
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| change | slaughter, massacre, mow down | kill a large number of people indiscriminately | |
| NOUN | act | slaughter | the killing of animals (as for food) |
| event | slaughter, thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping | a sound defeat | |
| act | slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
| Sounds | slao'ter | |
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| Rhymes | abductor ... zoster: 649 rhymes with ter... | |
| Meaning | The killing of animals (as for food). | |
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| Part of | butchery, butchering | The business of a butcher |
| Broader | killing, kill, putting to death | The act of terminating a life |
| Spanish | faena, matanza, matar, sacrificar, sacrificio | |
| Catalan | matar, sacrificar | |
| Verbs | slaughter | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
| Meaning | A sound defeat. | |
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| Synonyms | thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping | |
| Broader | defeat, licking | An unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest / contest |
| Spanish | paliza, tunda | |
| Catalan | allisada, pallissa, panadera | |
| Meaning | The savage and excessive killing of many people. | |
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| Synonyms | massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery | |
| Instances | Alamo | A siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836 |
| Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand | A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry / cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876) | |
| Narrower | bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue | indiscriminate slaughter |
| Broader | murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
| Spanish | carnaje, carnicería, masacre, matanza, mortandad | |
| Catalan | carnatge, carnisseria, massacre, matança | |
| Adjectives | slaughterous | accompanied by bloodshed |
| Verbs | slaughter | kill a large number of people indiscriminately |
| Meaning | kill (animals) usually for food consumption. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Example | "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" | |
| Synonym | butcher | |
| Entails | cut | separate with or as if with an instrument |
| Narrower | chine | cut through the backbone of an animal |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | carnear, masacrar, matar, sacrificar | |
| Nouns | slaughter | the killing of animals (as for food) |
| slaughterer | a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | |
| Meaning | kill a large number of people indiscriminately. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody | |
| Model | They want to slaughter the prisoners | |
| Synonyms | massacre, mow down | |
| Broader | kill | Cause to die |
| Spanish | carnear, exterminar, masacrar, matar | |
| Catalan | exterminar, massacrar | |
| Nouns | slaughter | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
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