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slaughter

slaugh·ter
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [slaw-ter]
    • /ˈslɔ tər/
    • /ˈslɔː.tər/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [slaw-ter]
    • /ˈslɔ tər/

Definitions of slaughter word

  • noun slaughter Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician. 1
  • verb with object slaughter to kill or butcher (animals), especially for food. 1
  • verb with object slaughter to kill in a brutal or violent manner. 1
  • verb with object slaughter to slay in great numbers; massacre. 1
  • verb with object slaughter Informal. to defeat thoroughly; trounce: They slaughtered our team. 1
  • verb slaughter If large numbers of people or animals are slaughtered, they are killed in a way that is cruel or unnecessary. 0

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Origin of slaughter

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English slaghter, slahter, slauther (noun) < Old Norse slātr, earlier slāttr, slahtr

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Parts of speech for Slaughter

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

slaughter popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

slaughter usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for slaughter

verb slaughter

  • annihilate — To annihilate something means to destroy it completely.
  • assassinate — When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
  • bankrupted — Law. a person who upon his or her own petition or that of his or her creditors is adjudged insolvent by a court and whose property is administered for and divided among his or her creditors under a bankruptcy law.
  • birch — A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
  • birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch

noun slaughter

  • annihilation — the act of annihilating
  • annihilator — a person or thing that annihilates.
  • assassination — to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
  • beating — If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
  • blood and guts — dealing with or depicting war or violence, especially in a lurid manner: a blood-and-guts movie.

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