All slaughter synonyms
slaugh·ter
S s noun slaughter
- hecatomb — (in ancient Greece and Rome) a public sacrifice of 100 oxen to the gods.
- genocide — the deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
- kos — a unit of land distance of various lengths from 1 to 3 miles (1.6 to 4.8 km).
- gore — a city in W Ethiopia.
- extermination — Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.
- demolisher — One who demolishes.
verb slaughter
- flitch — the side of a hog (or, formerly, some other animal) salted and cured: a flitch of bacon.
- carry off — If you carry something off, you do it successfully.
- lay open — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- garroted — 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.
- faceting — one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- birching — the action of beating someone, esp a naughty schoolchild, with a birch
- 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.
- chine — the backbone
- exterminate — Destroy completely.
- garroting — 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.