slaughter

Definitions

1. The killing of animals, generally for food
2. The killing of animals, generally for food.
   uncountable
3. A surname.
4. Used in the placenames of the Slaughters, Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter.
5. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people
6. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
   countable, uncountable
7. A town in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, from the surname.
8. A mass destruction of non-living things
9. A mass destruction of non-living things.
   countable, rare, uncountable
10. A rout or decisive defeat
11. A rout or decisive defeat.
    countable, uncountable
12. A group of iguanas
13. A group of iguanas.
    collective, countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416, For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.”

“[…] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet⟳ with Patrician Blood.”

“There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.”

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