slaughter - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

the killing of animals (as for food)

Synonyms

• slaughter

More generic

• kill
• killing
• putting to death

Related

• butchering
• butchery

Noun

the savage and excessive killing of many people

Synonyms

• butchery
• carnage
• mass murder
• massacre
• slaughter

More generic

• execution
• murder
• slaying

More specific

• battue
• bloodbath
• bloodletting
• bloodshed

Noun

a sound defeat

Synonyms

• debacle
• drubbing
• slaughter
• thrashing
• trouncing
• walloping
• whipping

More generic

• defeat
• licking

Verb

kill a large number of people indiscriminately

Synonyms

• massacre
• mow down
• slaughter

More generic

• kill

Verb

kill (animals) usually for food consumption

Synonyms

• butcher
• slaughter

More generic

• kill

More specific

• chine

Related

• cut