Definition of slaughter

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Slaughter (v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.

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Bloodless :: Bloodless (a.) Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory..
Manslaughter :: Manslaughter (n.) The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Spill :: Spill (v. t.) To cause to flow out and be lost or wasted; to shed, or suffer to be shed, as in battle or in manslaughter; as, a man spills another's blood, or his own blood..
Slaughterous :: Slaughterous (a.) Destructive; murderous.
Slaughterman :: Slaughterman (n.) One employed in slaughtering.
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..
Butchery :: Butchery (n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter..
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..
Populicide :: Populicide (n.) Slaughter of the people.
Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..
Butchering :: Butchering (n.) The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
Wholesale :: Wholesale (a.) Extensive and indiscriminate; as, wholesale slaughter..
Feeder :: Feeder (n.) One who fattens cattle for slaughter.
Gambrel :: Gambrel (n.) A stick crooked like a horse's hind leg; -- used by butchers in suspending slaughtered animals.
Laniary :: Laniary (a.) The shambles; a place of slaughter.
Manslayer :: Manslayer (n.) One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Appealable :: Appealable (a.) That may be accused or called to answer by appeal; as, a criminal is appealable for manslaughter..
Butcher :: Butcher (v. t.) To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..
Internecine :: Internecine (a.) Involving, or accompanied by, mutual slaughter; mutually destructive..
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