| slaughterhouse | | |
| n. (artifact) | 1. abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse | a building where animals are butchered. |
| ~ building, edifice | a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place.; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice" |
| slaughter | | |
| n. (act) | 1. slaughter | the killing of animals (as for food). |
| ~ kill, putting to death, killing | the act of terminating a life. |
| ~ butchering, butchery | the business of a butcher. |
| n. (event) | 2. debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, 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" |
| n. (act) | 3. butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter | the savage and excessive killing of many people. |
| ~ murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being. |
| ~ bloodbath, battue, bloodletting, bloodshed | indiscriminate slaughter.; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered" |
| ~ alamo | a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico. |
| ~ battle of little bighorn, battle of the little bighorn, custer's last stand, little bighorn | a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command. |
| v. (contact) | 4. butcher, slaughter | kill (animals) usually for food consumption.; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" |
| ~ chine | cut through the backbone of an animal. |
| ~ 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" |
| ~ cut | separate with or as if with an instrument.; "Cut the rope" |
| v. (change) | 5. massacre, mow down, slaughter | 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" |
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