slaughter
The killing of animals, generally for food.
Other meanings
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
A rout or decisive defeat.
Related words
- self-slaughtered
- unslaughtered
- slaughteringly
- antislaughter
- catslaughter
- deerslaughter
- godslaughter
- misslaughter
- preslaughter
- selfslaughter
- slaughterbot
- slaughterdom
Word history
From Middle English "slaughter".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “slaughter” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.