Synonyms for slaughter
ˈslɔ tərslaugh·ter

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1. slaughter

   To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.

   Synonyms:
   assassinate, butcher, despatch, execute, kill, massacre, murder, put to death, slay

   Preposition:
   To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.

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1. slaughternoun

   the killing of animals (as for food)

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, carnage, massacre

2. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whippingnoun

   a sound defeat

   Synonyms:
   whacking, beating, flogging, whipstitch, mass murder, whipping, whipstitching, lacing, carnage, debacle, walloping, drubbing, butchery, thrashing, licking, fiasco, trouncing, massacre, lashing, tanning, flagellation

3. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcheryverb

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, butchery, whipping, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, shambles, massacre

4. butcher, slaughterverb

   kill (animals) usually for food consumption

   "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

   Synonyms:
   butcher, massacre, mow down

5. massacre, slaughter, mow downverb

   kill a large number of people indiscriminately

   "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

   Synonyms:
   butcher, massacre, mow down

Matched Categories

1. • Defeat
   • Kill
   • Killing

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1. slaughternoun

   Synonyms:
   massacre, MURDER, carnage, bloodshed, butchery, ASSASSINATION, MANSLAUGHTER

2. slaughterverb

   Synonyms:
   massacre, slay, kill, butcher, despatch, MURDER

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:1.0 / 1 vote

1. slaughternoun

   Synonyms:
   butchery, killing

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1. List of paraphrases for "slaughter":

   slaughtering, massacre, culling, felling, sacrifice, cull, slaughterhouse, carnage, killing, butchery, logging, abattoir, slaughterhouses, defeat, beef, slaughtered, abattoirs

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How to use slaughter in a sentence?

1. Maryam Rajavi:

   Any interaction and cooperation with the clerical regime will be in service of the repression and slaughter of the Iranian people, and its nuclear weapons ambitions, and fueling wars in the region.

2. John McCain:

   I know what the slaughter has been like. I know that the Russians knew that Bashar Assad was going to use chemical weapons. And to say that maybe we've got the wrong approach?

3. Marcus Arbery Sr.:

   Anytime you pursue a young man, go jump in a truck with shotguns and a pistol ... and you follow him and slaughter him like that, that's lynching.

4. Karl Marx:

   Colonial system, public debts, heavy taxes, protection, commercial wars, etc., these offshoots of the period of manufacture swell to gigantic proportions during the period of infancy of large-scale industry. The birth of the latter is celebrated by a vast, Hero-like slaughter of the innocents.

5. Gyula Nagy:

   The price of our slaughter pigs has ... dropped by 10 percent, plus our export possibilities have also decreased.