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"
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• derivationally related form
• W: (n) butcher [Related to: butcher] (a retailer of meat)
• W: (n) butcher [Related to: butcher] (a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market)
• W: (n) butchery [Related to: butcher] (a building where animals are butchered)
• W: (n) butchery [Related to: butcher] (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
• W: (n) butchery [Related to: butcher] (the business of a butcher)
• W: (n) slaughter [Related to: slaughter] (the killing of animals (as for food))
• W: (n) slaughterer [Related to: slaughter] (a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market)
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• S: (v) massacre, slaughter, mow down (kill a large number of people indiscriminately) "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"