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slaughter
  1. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
  2. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
  3. A rout or decisive defeat.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Augustine describes in detail Cain's envy, which led to his slaughter of Abel.”
      “Foot-and-mouth disease broke out, leading to a prophylactic mass slaughter of cows and sheep throughout Britain and France.”
      “Brutal conquests to be sure, his bloody wake of slaughter in the violent thirteenth century led to the murder of untold millions.”
slaughterer
  1. Agent noun of slaughter; one who slaughters.
  2. A butcher (as a profession or job).
  3. A ritual slaughterer, kosher slaughterer, kosher butcher, shochet / shokhet.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Former pig slaughterer Smith yesterday admitted causing unnecessary suffering to the animals.”
      “He grew up in the farming town of Briagolong in regional Victoria, where his first job was as a slaughterer in a local meat works.”
      “A butcher's helper at the age of 14, Swift became a buyer and slaughterer of cattle in 1859 and also opened a butcher shop in Eastham, Mass.”
slaughterhouse
  1. A place where animals are slaughtered.
  2. (figuratively) The scene of a massacre.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The Seville slaughterhouse was the first official school of tauromachy in Spain.”
      “A bull put to death by a matador will, in future, be considered in the same way as any animal killed outside a slaughterhouse.”
      “For now, his forces were entrenched safely, but if their luck started to turn, the platform would become a slaughterhouse.”
slaughterperson
  1. (nonstandard, rare) A slaughterman or slaughterwoman; a slaughterhouse worker of any gender.
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slaughterwoman
  1. A woman employed to slaughter animals in a slaughterhouse.
slaughterman
  1. A man employed to slaughter animals in a slaughterhouse.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A son feared his father died from the human form of mad cow disease due to a life-time exposure to offal in his career as a slaughterman.”
      “The two latest suspected cases were disclosed a day after it emerged a slaughterman in north Cumbria was undergoing tests for the disease.”
      “It emerged that a slaughterman, a trained marksman, tried to kill the animals with a.22 rifle from a vehicle, with a vet present.”
slaughterhall
  1. The area of a slaughterhouse where the animals are killed.
slaughteress
  1. (dated, rare) A female slaughterer.
slaught
  1. Killing; slaughter.
  2. Examples:
    1. “He clumbled for his fametold sword, Fear becringing on his thoughts, And steadened by the curtain cord, He breaged against the ghosten slaught.”
slaughterdom
slaughtre
  1. Obsolete spelling of slaughter
slaughtering
slaughterpeople
  1. plural of slaughterperson
slaughterpersons
  1. plural of slaughterperson
slaughterwomen
  1. plural of slaughterwoman
slaughterhouses
slaughterhalls
  1. plural of slaughterhall
slaughtermen
slaughterings
slaughteresses
  1. plural of slaughteress
slaughterers
  1. plural of slaughterer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Unlike axe brandishers, slaughterers are deeply respected and admired by the other warriors of their tribe.”
      “In addition, he said a number of new slaughterers were entering the market.”
      “To adhere to the kosher process, Alle hired ritual slaughterers, or shochetim, to travel from New York to Texas.”
slaughtres
  1. plural of slaughtre
slaughts
  1. plural of slaught
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