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.