Definition of slaughter

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Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..

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Internecine :: Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive..
Beef :: Beef (n.) The flesh of an ox, or cow, or of any adult bovine animal, when slaughtered for food..
Fatten :: Fatten (v. t.) To make fat; to feed for slaughter; to make fleshy or plump with fat; to fill full; to fat.
Wholesale :: Wholesale (a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter..
Appealable :: Appealable (a.) That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter..
Slaughterman :: Slaughterman (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
Slaughterhouse :: Slaughterhouse (n.) A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Voluntary :: Voluntary (v. t.) Done by design or intention; intentional; purposed; intended; not accidental; as, if a man kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One limb of a quadruped with the adjacent parts; one fourth part of the carcass of a slaughtered animal, including a leg; as, the fore quarters; the hind quarters..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
Populicide :: Populicide (n.) Slaughter of the people.
Hecatomb :: Hecatomb (n.) A sacrifice of a hundred oxen or cattle at the same time; hence, the sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims..
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc/ or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger..
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
Self-slaughter :: Self-slaughter (n.) Suicide.
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..
Carnage :: Carnage (n.) Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc..
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