Noun

• S: (n) slaughter (slaughter%1:04:00::) (the killing of animals (as for food))
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• part holonym
• derivationally related form
• S: (n) thrashing (thrashing%1:11:00::), walloping (walloping%1:11:00::), debacle (debacle%1:11:00::), drubbing (drubbing%1:11:00::), slaughter (slaughter%1:11:00::), trouncing (trouncing%1:11:00::), whipping (whipping%1:11:00::) (a sound defeat)
• S: (n) slaughter (slaughter%1:04:01::), massacre (massacre%1:04:00::), mass murder (mass_murder%1:04:00::), carnage (carnage%1:04:00::), butchery (butchery%1:04:02::) (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• has instance
• S: (n) Alamo (alamo%1:04:00::) (a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico)
• S: (n) Little Bighorn (little_bighorn%1:04:00::), Battle of Little Bighorn (battle_of_little_bighorn%1:04:00::), Battle of the Little Bighorn (battle_of_the_little_bighorn%1:04:00::), Custer's Last Stand (custer's_last_stand%1:04:00::) (a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form

Verb

• S: (v) butcher (butcher%2:35:00::), slaughter (slaughter%2:35:00::) (kill (animals) usually for food consumption) "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
• S: (v) massacre (massacre%2:30:00::), slaughter (slaughter%2:30:00::), mow down (mow_down%2:30:00::) (kill a large number of people indiscriminately) "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"