SLAUGHTER
\slˈɔːtə], \slˈɔːtə], \s_l_ˈɔː_t_ə]\
Definitions of SLAUGHTER
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
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the killing of animals (as for food)
By Princeton University
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kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
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the killing of animals (as for food)
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
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The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
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To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
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To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
By Oddity Software
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The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
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The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
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To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
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To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
By Noah Webster.
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The act of killing; wanton destruction of life; carnage; killing of cattle, etc., for human food.
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To slay or kill with violence; to massacre; to butcher (beasts) for the market.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A slaying or killing: a great destruction of life: carnage: butchery.
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To slay: to kill for the market: to destroy by violence (as numbers): to massacre.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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