Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

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.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Livestock Conservancy, License CC BY-SA 4.0