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SLAUGHTER

Definition:

1. [noun] the killing of animals (as for food)
   
   
2. [noun] a sound defeat
   Synonyms: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping
   
   
3. [noun] the savage and excessive killing of many people
   Synonyms: massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
   
   
4. [verb] kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
   Synonyms: butcher
   
   
5. [verb] kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
   Synonyms: massacre, mow down
   
   

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