Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slaughter

3 senses of slaughter

Sense 1
slaughter -- (the killing of animals (as for food))
       => killing, kill, putting to death -- (the act of terminating a life)

Sense 2
thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping -- (a sound defeat)
       => defeat, licking -- (an unsuccessful ending to a struggle or contest; "it was a narrow defeat"; "the army's only defeat"; "they suffered a convincing licking")

Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
       => murder, slaying, execution -- (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slaughter

2 senses of slaughter

Sense 1
butcher, slaughter -- (kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter")
       => kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")

Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down -- (kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda")
       => kill -- (cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly; "This man killed several people when he tried to rob a bank"; "The farmer killed a pig for the holidays")