Main entry: slaughter
Definition: the killing of animals (as for food)
Main entry: slaughter, butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre
Definition: the savage and excessive killing of many people
Main entry: slaughter, whipping, walloping, trouncing, thrashing, debacle, drubbing
Definition: a sound defeat
Main entry: massacre, slaughter, mow down
Definition: kill a large number of people indiscriminately
Usage: The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda
Main entry: slaughter, butcher
Definition: kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Usage: They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter