All slaughter synonyms
slaughΒ·ter
S s verb slaughter
- zap β to kill or shoot.
- kill off β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- depopulated β (of a place) reduced in population
- hacked β to place (something) on a hack, as for drying or feeding.
- garotting β to execute by the garrote.
- kill β to deprive of life in any manner; cause the death of; slay. Synonyms: slaughter, massacre, butcher; hang, electrocute, behead, guillotine, strangle, garrote; assassinate.
- dust off β earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- mow down β to cut down (grass, grain, etc.) with a scythe or a machine.
- decimate β To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- depopulate β To depopulate an area means to greatly reduce the number of people living there.
- butcher β A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
- assassinate β When someone important is assassinated, they are murdered as a political act.
- hashed β Simple past tense and past participle of hash.
- cut down β If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
- cut β If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
- blot out β If one thing blots out another thing, it is in front of the other thing and prevents it from being seen.
- do away with β from this or that place; off: to go away.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- dispatch β to send off or away with speed, as a messenger, telegram, body of troops, etc.
- hashing β hash coding
- garrote β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- faceted β one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- worsted β that which is worst.
- get rid of β to clear, disencumber, or free of something objectionable (usually followed by of): I want to rid the house of mice. In my opinion, you'd be wise to rid yourself of the smoking habit.
- dicing β gambling or playing with dice.
- hacking β a rack for drying food, as fish.
- birch β A birch or a birch tree is a type of tall tree with thin branches.
noun slaughter
- manslayer β a person who kills another human being.
- extinguishment β The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- killer β a person or thing that kills.
- beating β If someone is given a beating, they are hit hard many times, especially with something such as a stick.
- bloodletting β Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- ko β a knockout in boxing.
- decimation β to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- drubbing β a blow with a stick or the like.
- killing β the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
- butchery β You can refer to the cruel killing of a lot of people as butchery when you want to express your horror and disgust at this.
- internecion β Destruction, massacre (\"laughter. \u2014 That natural propension of self-love, and natural principle of self-preservation, will necessarily break out into wars and internecions\" Hale).
- nonsuccess β Absence of success; failure.
- assassination β to kill suddenly or secretively, especially a politically prominent person; murder premeditatedly and treacherously.
- dusting β earth or other matter in fine, dry particles.
- liquidation β the process of realizing upon assets and of discharging liabilities in concluding the affairs of a business, estate, etc.
- chemotherapy β Chemotherapy is the treatment of disease using chemicals. It is often used in treating cancer.
- carnage β Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
- despoiler β to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage.
- martyrdom β the condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
- licking β a stroke of the tongue over something.
- offing β the state or fact of being off.
- hit-and-run β guilty of fleeing the scene of an accident or injury one has caused, especially a vehicular accident, thereby attempting to evade being identified and held responsible: a hit-and-run driver.
- massacre β the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.