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1. Kill (animals) usually for food consumption
   "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter";
   - butcher
    
2. Kill a large number of people indiscriminately
   "The Hutus slaughtered the Tutsis in Rwanda";
   - massacre, mow down, butcher
    
3. Beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
   "We slaughtered the other team on Sunday!";
   - cream, bat, clobber, drub, thrash, lick, trounce, wipe the floor, whale [N. Amer], hammer, tromp [N. Amer], smoke [N. Amer], muller [Brit], beat hollow

1. The killing of animals (as for food)
    
2. A sound defeat
   - thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping, hammering, débâcle, smackdown [N. Amer]
    
3. The savage and excessive killing of many people
   - massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery

Derived forms: slaughtered, slaughtering, slaughters

Type of: beat, beat out, crush, defeat, execution, kill, killing, licking, murder, putting to death, shell, slaying, trounce, vanquish

Part of: butchering, butchery

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