slaughter

n

1.(all of animals) killing, butchering, chopping, cutting, carving; trimming, slicing, dismembering, mincing; abattage.

2. murder, homicide, manslaughter, assassination, slaying, killing; bloodshed, bloodletting, butchery, death by violence, brutal or bloody murder, murder most foul, foul murder, violent murder; mutilation, disembowelment, dismemberment.

3. carnage, massacre, wholesale butchery, random or indiscriminate butchery, general butchery; wholesale killing, hecatomb, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction; bloodbath, effusion of blood, fusillade of blood, noyade, Rare. internecion, Rare. trucidation, decimation, annihilation, extermination, liquidation, pogrom, genocide.

v

4.(all of animals) butcher, cut, hack, chop, carve, slice, trim; dress, prepare.

5. butcher, cut to pieces, maul, savage, hew, hack, hack to pieces, chop, chop to pieces, mow down, mutilate, tear limb from limb, dismember, disembowel, wade in blood, give no quarter, show no mercy, run amuck, go berserk; kill, murder, slay, cut down, do to death, execute, put to death, put to the sword, destroy, shed or spill blood, assassinate.

6. massacre, kill off, decimate, destroy a great number, annihilate, exterminate, eliminate, liquidate, obliterate, eradicate, erase, blot out.

7. trounce, trample, thrash, defeat thoroughly or utterly, rout, overwhelm, discomfit, humble, tread or trample underfoot, vanquish, conquer; crush, break, smash.