"slaughter" in the noun sense
1. slaughter
the killing of animals (as for food)
2. thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
a sound defeat
3. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
the savage and excessive killing of many people
"slaughter" in the verb sense
1. butcher, slaughter
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
2. massacre, slaughter, mow down
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
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