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How to pronounce slaughter in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre
Type of execution, murder, slaying
Has types bloodbath, battue, bloodletting, bloodshed
Derivation slaughterous
Type Words
Synonyms massacre, mow down
Type of kill
Type Words
Synonyms butcher
Type of kill
Has types chine
Derivation slaughterer


They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter.
Type Words
Synonyms debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping
Type of licking, defeat
Type Words
Type of putting to death, kill, killing

Examples of slaughter

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It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.
From the courier-journal.com
As it is, the mass slaughter that finishes all true revenge tragedies has begun.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Whatever happens next, Mr Cameron was right to intervene to stop mass slaughter.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It's not just an issue of slaughter, but one of lifelong confinement and misery.
From the sacbee.com
Hutu rage boiled over on April 6, and they began a systemic slaughter of Tutsis.
From the washingtontimes.com
By the end of the 18th century, the slaughter was over, the whales all but gone.
From the lohud.com
They've begun to raise chickens and pigs, and they've learned to slaughter them.
From the omaha.com
The mass slaughter of sparrows brought on an upsurge of grain-devouring insects.
From the time.com
Fifty years ago, we're advised, it took 70 days to raise a chicken to slaughter.
From the timesunion.com
More examples
  • The killing of animals (as for food)
  • Butcher: kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
  • Massacre: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
  • Thrashing: a sound defeat
  • The savage and excessive killing of many people
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  • Slaughter is a 1972 blaxploitation film directed by Jack Starrett, and stars Jim Brown as a black former Green Beret captain who seeks revenge for the murder of his parents. This film was followed by a sequel, Slaughter's Big Rip-Off in 1973.