as in massacre
the killing of a large number of people
all civilized nations should protest this senseless slaughter
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as in to massacre
to kill on a large scale
modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day
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Recent Examples of slaughter
Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Chicken populations eventually started to recover from the slaughter, though, which increased the supply, bringing costs back down.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 21 July 2025
Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Despite a thundering chorus of opposition, state wildlife officials seem determined to go through with its plan to slaughter dozens, maybe hundreds, of Florida black bears this December.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
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Noun
Half of the planet’s land surface is dedicated to agriculture, with 80% of that devoted to either rearing animals for slaughter or growing monocrops to feed them.
—Grrlscientist, Forbes.com, 21 July 2025
Chicken populations eventually started to recover from the slaughter, though, which increased the supply, bringing costs back down.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 21 July 2025
Verb
With their men slaughtered, local women in the epic like Briseis are driven to a horrific existence, enslaved by their Greek captors and the killers of their fathers, husbands and brothers—utterly powerless victims of war, subject to the soldiers’ every whim, including rape.
—Literary Hub, 13 June 2025
Despite a thundering chorus of opposition, state wildlife officials seem determined to go through with its plan to slaughter dozens, maybe hundreds, of Florida black bears this December.
—Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughter
Noun
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Australia has designated Hamas a terrorist entity and Albanese repeated Monday his government's calls for the group to return Israeli hostages held since the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre.—
Bradford Betz,
FOXNews.com,
11 Aug. 2025
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Some Israelis on the left are more aware of this now, but the open wound of both the massacre itself and those twenty live hostages and thirty bodies kept remain obsessions.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Aug. 2025
Verb
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The two had become friends, but police arrested Knox and charged her with murdering Kercher.—
Erin Jensen,
USA Today,
20 Aug. 2025
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As teenagers, they were convicted of murdering three 8-year-old boys, allegedly as part of Satanic rites.—
Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
19 Aug. 2025
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“Slaughter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughter. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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