slaughter

1. 1.

   the killing of animals (as for food)

   Broaderkilling

   Part ofbutchery
2. 2.

   a sound defeat

   Synonymsthrashingwallopingdebacledrubbingtrouncingwhipping

   Broaderdefeat
3. 3.

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonymsmassacremass murdercarnagebutchery

   Broadermurder

   NarrowerbloodbathAlamoLittle Bighorn

1. 1.

   kill (animals) usually for food consumption

   “They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”

   Synonymsbutcher

   Broaderkill

   Narrowerchine
2. 2.

   kill a large number of people indiscriminately

   “The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda”

   Synonymsmassacremow down

   Broaderkill

Other forms of slaughter

plural

slaughters·

past tense

slaughterred·

present participle

slaughterring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slaughter

What does slaughter mean?

slaughter means "the killing of animals (as for food)". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slaughter?

slaughter has 2 syllables: slaugh-ter. The stress falls on "slaugh". In IPA it is /ˈslɔtɚ/.

What is another word for slaughter?

Close synonyms include thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slaughter a common word?

slaughter is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with slaughter?

1 word rhymes with slaughter. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.