slaughter

slaughter
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noun
ADJECTIVE
indiscriminate, mass, wholesale

the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians

brutal, senseless, terrible
ritual
animal

humane forms of animal slaughter

halal, kosher

She supports a ban on kosher and halal slaughter, believing that such methods are cruel.

VERB + SLAUGHTER
end, prevent, stop

We were helpless to stop the slaughter.

ban

federal legislation to ban horse slaughter

order

Officials ordered the slaughter of hundreds of animals.

PREPOSITION
for slaughter

the transporting of live horses for slaughter

PHRASES
the slaughter of innocents

the horrors of civil war and the slaughter of innocents

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verb
1 kill an animal
ADVERB
humanely

The animals are all humanely slaughtered.

ritually
illegally

elephants illegally slaughtered by poachers

PREPOSITION
for

Thousands of birds were slaughtered for their feathers.

2 kill a large number of people
ADVERB
brutally, cruelly

Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.

indiscriminately
systematically

Thousands of people were systematically slaughtered by their oppressors.

Slaughter is used with these nouns as the object: ↑animal, ↑cattle, ↑cow, ↑lamb, ↑pig, ↑sheep

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