Slaughter

Slaughter - Other Definitions

• (v. t.) The act of killing.
  
  
• (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
  
  
• (v. t.) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
  
  
• (v. t.) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
  
  
• (v. t.) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
  
  
• (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slaughter