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All slaughter synonyms

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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.
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