as in massacre
the killing of a large number of people
all civilized nations should protest this senseless slaughter
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as in to massacre
to kill on a large scale
modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day
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Recent Examples of slaughter
ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
Decades of this rhetoric have driven most Iranians—who have noticed that the wages of resistance are misery, hardship, and slaughter by their own wicked oppressors—to despair.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
An outbreak forced farmers and commercial producers to slaughter entire broods of egg-laying hens, but ebbing cases in the second half of last year helped restore egg supplies, said Mark Jordan, the executive director of agricultural research firm LEAP Market Analytics.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
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Noun
What followed was sheer amphibian slaughter — when the mating season started and the frogs were on the move, thousands would get run over.
—ABC News, 9 Apr. 2026
Decades of this rhetoric have driven most Iranians—who have noticed that the wages of resistance are misery, hardship, and slaughter by their own wicked oppressors—to despair.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2026
Verb
Halal is hand-slaughtered by Muslims.
—Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
An outbreak forced farmers and commercial producers to slaughter entire broods of egg-laying hens, but ebbing cases in the second half of last year helped restore egg supplies, said Mark Jordan, the executive director of agricultural research firm LEAP Market Analytics.
—ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
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Infowars is facing liquidation because of the more than $1 billion in defamation lawsuit judgments Jones owes relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting for calling the massacre a hoax.—
Jim Vertuno,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2026
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Valente began plotting the Brown University massacre as early as 2022, renting a storage unit in Salem, New Hampshire, to stash his weapons.—
Alexandra Koch,
FOXNews.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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Born in Austria in 1933, the year Hitler took power in Germany, Stojka was a survivor of the Romani Holocaust, in which the Third Reich murdered as many as half a million people.—
Ben Davis,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Apr. 2026
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Yet when Heuermann pleaded guilty to murdering eight women earlier this month, Gilbert was not among the victims.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
24 Apr. 2026
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“Slaughter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughter. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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