Noun

• S: (n) slaughter (the killing of animals (as for food))
• S: (n) thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping (a sound defeat)
• S: (n) slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery (the savage and excessive killing of many people)

Verb

• S: (v) butcher, slaughter (kill (animals) usually for food consumption) "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
• direct troponym / full troponym
• S: (v) chine (cut through the backbone of an animal)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• entailment
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) massacre, slaughter, mow down (kill a large number of people indiscriminately) "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"