Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
slaughter
IPA transcription: [sl'ɔtɚ]
Pronunciations of slaughter
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noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
slaughter
Meaning:
the killing of animals (as for food)
Synonyms:
thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
Meaning:
a sound defeat
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
butcher, slaughter
Meaning:
kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
Synonyms:
massacre, slaughter, mow_down
Meaning:
kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
Usage examples
It's slaughter!"
A Great Slaughter About Ascalon.
Go where they would, they met with slaughter on all sides.
Then followed a slaughter unequalled in the records of history.
The Norman army closed again, and fell upon them with great slaughter.
The latter were instantly overthrown, and were driven from the field with great slaughter.
I was sickened at the horrible cruelty, the needless slaughter, the mad self-sacrifice which distinguished them.
Red slaughter down below, a very inferno of sound; above, that shadowy stairway, still extending almost to the heavens.
And if he can "defeat with great slaughter" his monument is twice as high as if he had only visited on his brother man a plain undoing.
Three of the Iroquois, immediately before the slaughter began, had received from Etienne a warning of their danger in time to make their escape.
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