Definition of slaughter

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Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..

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Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Abattoir :: Abattoir (n.) A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc..
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..
Butcher :: Butcher (n.) A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle..
Self-slaughter :: Self-slaughter (n.) Suicide.
Laniary :: Laniary (a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.
Deathful :: Deathful (a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Manslayer :: Manslayer (n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Slaughterous :: Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.
Fatling :: Fatling (n.) A calf, lamb, kid, or other young animal fattened for slaughter; a fat animal; -- said of such animals as are used for food..
Internecine :: Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive..
Knacker :: Knacker (n.) One who slaughters worn-out horses and sells their flesh for dog's meat.
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
Wholesale :: Wholesale (a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter..
Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter..
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