Dictionary Entry
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
- 1transitive verb
The act of killing.
- 2transitive verb
The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
- 3transitive verb
The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
- 4transitive verb
To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
- 5transitive verb
To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
- 6noun
the killing of animals (as for food)
- 7noun
the savage and excessive killing of many people
- 8noun
a sound defeat
- 9verb
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
Synonyms
- 10verb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
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