Slaughter - Definition
slaughter
n 1: the killing of animals (as for food)
2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle,
drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping]
3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn:
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage,
butchery]
v 1: kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They
slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn:
butcher, slaughter]
2: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus
massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre,
slaughter, mow down]