Word Meanings - SLAUGHTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder;
Additional info about word: SLAUGHTER
The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; havoc. (more info) slain flesh, modified by OE. slaught, slaht, slaughter, fr. AS. sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root of E. slay. See Slay, v.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLAUGHTER)
- Bloodshed
- Slaughter
- massacre
- carnage
- butchery
- Carnage
- Massacre
- slaughter
- bloodshed
- Kill
- Slay
- murder
- assassinate
- destroy
- butcher
- immolate
- deaden
- put to death
- despatch
Related words: (words related to SLAUGHTER)
- IMMOLATE
To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle. (more info) orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref. - BLOODSHEDDER
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - BUTCHERING
1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - BUTCHER'S BROOM
A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - BUTCHERLY
Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak. - DEATHWATCH
A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ, - CARNAGE
1. Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay. 2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. Macaulay. - BLOODSHEDDING
Bloodshed. Shak. - DEADEN
Etym: 1. To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound. As harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its - MURDER
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, - DEATHWARD
Toward death. - MASSACRE
metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. - BLOODSHOT
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens. - BUTCHERLINESS
Butchery quality. - DEADENER
One who, or that which, deadens or checks. - SELF-DESTROYER
One who destroys himself; a suicide. - TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat. - SELF-MURDER
Suicide. - MANSLAUGHTER
The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.