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slaughter
[slaw-ter] 
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slaughter
[slaw-ter]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | killing |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, destruction, extermination, liquidation, massacre, murder, slaying |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | annihilate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy completely |
| Synonyms: | abate, abolish, abrogate, annul, blot out, crush*, decimate, demolish, do in, eradicate, erase, expunge, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, finish off, invalidate, liquidate, massacre, murder, negate, nullify, obliterate, quash, quell, raze, root out, rub out, ruin, slaughter, take out*, undo, vitiate, wipe out, wrack, wreck |
| Antonyms: | help, preserve, revive, save |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | assassinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | murder prominent or important person |
| Synonyms: | bump off, do in, eliminate, execute, gun down, hit, kill, knock off, liquidate, slaughter, slay |
| Main Entry: | butcher |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | slay and prepare animal for meat |
| Synonyms: | beef up, carve, clean, cure, cut, cut down, dress, joint, liquidate, salt, slaughter, smoke, stick |
| Main Entry: | carnage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | massacre |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, blitz, blood, blood and guts, blood bath, bloodshed, butchering, butchery, crime, extermination, gore, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, homicide, killing, liquidation, manslaughter, mass murder, murder, offing, rapine, search and destroy, shambles, slaughter, slaying, taking out, warfare, wasting |
| Main Entry: | cut |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | sever, chop with sharp instrument; incise |
| Synonyms: | amputate, behead, bisect, bite, carve, chine, chip, chisel, cleave, clip, crop, curtail, decussate, dice, dispatch, dissect, dissever, divide, facet, fell, flitch, gash, guillotine, hack, hash, hew, intersect, lacerate, lay open, level, lop, massacre, mince, mow, mow down, nick, notch, part, penetrate, perforate, pierce, prune, puncture, quarter, rabbet, raze, reap, rend, rip, rive, saber, saw, scarify, scissor, score, scythe, separate, shave, shear, sickle, skive, slash, slaughter, slay, slice, slit, sliver, snip |
| Main Entry: | decimate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | destroy |
| Synonyms: | annihilate, butcher, commit genocide, execute, exterminate, kill off, massacre, obliterate, slaughter, stamp out, wipe out |
| Notes: | decimate means to kill or destroy in large numbers; defeat means to win a victory over or to beat |
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overthrow, beating |
| Synonyms: | KO, ambush, annihilation, beating, blow, break, breakdown, check, collapse, conquest, count, debacle, defeasance, destruction, discomfiture, downthrow, drubbing, embarrassment, extermination, failure, fall, insuccess, killing*, lacing, licking, loss, massacre, mastery, nonsuccess, paddling, rebuff, repulse, reverse, rout, ruin, scalping, setback, shellacking, slaughter, subjugation, thrashing, trap, trashing, trimming, triumph, trouncing, vanquishment, waxing, whaling, whipping, whitewashing |
| Antonyms: | conquest, success, triumph, victory, win |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | defeat |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | conquer in military manner |
| Synonyms: | ambush, annihilate, bar, bear down, beat, best, block, butcher, crush, decimate, demolish, discomfit, drown, entrap, finish off, halt, hinder, impede, lick, mow down, obliterate, obstruct, outflank, outmaneuver, overpower, overrun, overthrow, overwhelm, parry, prevail over, quell, reduce, repel, repress, repulse, roll back, rout, route, sack, scatter, shipwreck, sink, slaughter, smash, subdue, subjugate, suppress, surmount, swamp, torpedo, trample, trash, upset, vanquish, whip, wipe out |
| Antonyms: | give up, lose, surrender |
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