slaughter

slaughter is a 9-letter English word with 10 senses as transitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of killing. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 15 · 10 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. The act of killing.
2. transitive verb. The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
3. transitive verb. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
4. transitive verb. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
5. transitive verb. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
6. noun. the killing of animals (as for food)
7. noun. the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms: butchery, carnage, massacre

8. noun. a sound defeat

   Synonyms: debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping

9. verb. kill a large number of people indiscriminately

   "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

   Synonyms: massacre

10. verb. kill (animals) usually for food consumption

    "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

    Synonyms: butcher

Synonyms

butchery, carnage, massacre, debacle, drubbing, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping, butcher

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in slaughter:

laughters, lethargus

Common word forms

slaughters, slaughtered, slaughterer, slaughtering, slaughterous

Words from these letters

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