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slaughter
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[ noun ] the killing of animals (as for food)
Used in print (Successful Farming, 59:12...)Discontinue medication 48 hours before slaughter . Do not feed to dairy_cows and do not feed within 60 days of slaughter . (Alex Gordon, The Cipher....)Not possible , he thought ; the prime_minister knew who his enemy was here ; he was n't going_to allow himself to be led meekly to the slaughter . |
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[ verb ] kill (animals) usually for food consumption
Synonyms Examples "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" Used in print (Successful Farming, 59:12...)Additive should not be fed 72 hours before animals are slaughtered . |
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[ verb ] kill a large number of people indiscriminately
Examples "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" Used in print (Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)Men were slaughtered every_day , tumbled into eternity like so many torn parcels flung down a portable chute . |
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[ noun ] a sound defeat
Used in print (The Dallas Morning News,...)He ran his string of successful conversions this season to 13 straight before one went astray last Saturday night in the 41 - 8 slaughter of Washington_State . |
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[ noun ] (law,criminal law) the wanton killing of many people
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1011
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