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Etymology

From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtrą, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. Equivalent to slay + -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten, Finnish lahdata (all “to slaughter”).

derived from *slak-✻
derived from *slahaną✻
derived from *slahtrą✻
derived from *slahtr✻
inherited from slaughter

Definitions

The killing of animals, generally for food.
2
A massacre
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416, For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.
- […] I ſee Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter, His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.
3
A mass destruction of non-living things.
- There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned.
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1. A rout or decisive defeat.
2. A group of iguanas.
3. To butcher animals, generally for food.
4. 7
  To massacre people in large numbers.
  - Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.
5. 8
  To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.
  - Therefore cheere vp your mindes, prepare to fight, He that can take or ſlaughter Tamburlaine, Shall rule the Prouince of Albania.
6. A surname.
7. A town in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, United States, from the surname.
8. Used in the placenames of the Slaughters, Upper Slaughter and Lower Slaughter.

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Derived

antislaughter, as a lamb to the slaughter, catslaughter, come like a lamb to the slaughter, deerslaughter, godslaughter, lamb to the slaughter, like a lamb to the slaughter, manslaughter, preslaughter, self-slaughter, selfslaughter, slaughter animal, slaughterbot, slaughterdom, slaughteress, slaughterfest, slaughterhall, slaughterhouse, slaughteringly, slaughterless, slaughterman, slaughterous, slaughterperson, slaughterwoman, unslaughtered, woman-slaughter, misslaughter, self-slaughtered, slaughterer, slaughterable

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