slaughter
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(noun) the killing of animals (as for food) |
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Related Words: kill, killing, putting to death |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of people |
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Synonyms: butchery, carnage |
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Related Words: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, homicide, murder, slaying |
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(verb) kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" |
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Synonyms: massacre, mow down |
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Related Words: kill |
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(verb) kill; used of animals, but also used for people to indicate brutality |
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Synonyms: butcher |
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Related Words: chine, kill |
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| 5. |
(noun) a sound defeat |
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Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping |
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Related Words: defeat, licking |
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