Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, n. [OE. slautir, slaughter, slaghter,
Icel. sl[=a]tr slain flesh, modified by OE. slaught, slaht,
slaughter, fr. AS. sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root
of E. slay. See Slay, v. t., and cf. Onslaught.]
The act of killing. Specifically:
(a) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of
life; carnage.
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On war and mutual slaughter bent. --Milton.
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(b) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
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Syn: Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; havoc.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaughtered; p.
pr. & vb. n. Slaughtering.]
1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay
in battle.
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Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes
Savagely slaughtered. --Shak.
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2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
slaughter
n 1: the killing of animals (as for food)
2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing,
trouncing, whipping]
3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: massacre,
mass murder, carnage, butchery]
v 1: kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They
slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn:
butcher]
2: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus
massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, mow
down]
WordNet (r) 2.0
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "slaughter":
annihilate, annihilation, assault, attack, bane, barbarize, batter,
battering, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, blue ruin,
braining, breakup, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchering, butchery,
carnage, carry on, commit carnage, commit genocide,
commit mass murder, consumption, cut off, cut short, damnation,
dealing death, decimate, decimation, depopulate, depredation,
desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction,
destruction of life, devastation, disintegration, disorderliness,
disorganization, dispatch, dispose of, disruption, dissolution,
do away with, end, euthanasia, execution, exterminate,
extermination, finish, finish off, flow of blood, forcible seizure,
get rid of, go on, gore, hammer, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust,
immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, lay waste, laying waste,
loot, looting, maim, make away with, mangle, martyrdom,
martyrization, massacre, maul, mercy killing, mug, murder,
murder wholesale, mutilate, nip, obstreperousness, occision,
onslaught, perdition, pillage, pillaging, poisoning, put paid to,
rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, riot, rioting,
ritual killing, ritual murder, roar, ruin, ruination, sack,
sacking, sacrifice, savage, shambles, shooting, slaughtering, slay,
slay en masse, slaying, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spoliation,
stick, stoning, storm, take off, taking of life, tear, tear around,
terrorize, to, torture, total, undoing, unruliness, vandalism,
vandalize, violate, violation, waste, wipe out, wrack,
wrack and ruin, wreck
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Slaughter, LA (town, FIPS 70770)
Location: 30.71890 N, 91.14160 W
Population (1990): 827 (300 housing units)
Area: 14.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 70777
U.S. Gazetteer (1990)
Slaughter, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
Population (2000): 1011
Housing Units (2000): 376
Land area (2000): 5.484612 sq. miles (14.205078 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.008698 sq. miles (0.022529 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.493310 sq. miles (14.227607 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70770
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 30.716484 N, 91.144506 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 70777
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Slaughter, LA
Slaughter
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)
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