Word Meanings - SLAUGHTEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.

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• 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;
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• DESTRUCTIVENESS
  The faculty supposed to impel to the commission of acts of destruction; propensity to destroy. (more info) 1. The quality of destroying or ruining. Prynne.
• DESTRUCTIVELY
  In a destructive manner.
• SLAUGHTEROUS
  Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
• SLAUGHTERER
  One who slaughters.
• MURDEROUS
  Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak.
• SLAUGHTERMAN
  One employed in slaughtering. Shak.
• DESTRUCTIVE
  Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the
• ONSLAUGHT
  1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson.
• MANSLAUGHTER
  The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
• SELF-SLAUGHTER
  Suicide. Shak.
• OVERSLAUGH
  A bar in a river; as, the overslaugh in the Hudson River. Bartlett.
• SELF-DESTRUCTIVE
  Destroying, or tending to destroy, one's self or itself; rucidal.