slaughter
Butchery of many
Slaughter is the killing of animals for food, or the brutal killing of many people.
A slaughterhouse processes livestock; a battlefield slaughter leaves bodies strewn across the ground.
The verb means to kill in either sense: They slaughtered the hogs in November; Civilians were slaughtered by the advancing army.
In casual use, slaughter describes a crushing defeat: We got slaughtered in the playoffs.
One who sells cuts
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- carnageWidespread violent death
- bloodshedKilling and wounding
- bloodbathEvent of mass killing
murder · slay · kill · execute · exterminate · annihilate · slain · homicide
Meat processing facility
- butcherySavage killing
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- stockyardLivestock enclosure for trade
- cattleDomesticated bovines kept commercially
hog · poultry · cull · processing · halal · kosher · humane · stunning
Sacred ritual table
- offeringSomething presented or given
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- immolationSacrificial killing, often burning
- hecatombGreat public sacrifice
ceremonial · blood · priest · temple · propitiation · votive · burnt offering
butcher
One who sells cuts
bloodbath · murder · slay · kill · execute · exterminate · annihilate · slain · homicide · fatality
abattoir
Meat processing facility
- butcherySavage killing
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- stockyardLivestock enclosure for trade
cattle · hog · poultry · cull · processing · halal · kosher · humane · stunning · bleed
altar
Sacred ritual table
- offeringSomething presented or given
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- immolationSacrificial killing, often burning
hecatomb · ceremonial · blood · priest · temple · propitiation · votive · burnt offering
rout
Overwhelming one-sided victory
annihilate · trounce · dominate · blowout · drubbing · wallop · wipeout · humiliate · overwhelm · steamroll
- food ethicsethical eating, veganism, ethical sourcing, vegetarianism, cruelty-free
- sacrificeburnt offering, blood sacrifice, human sacrifice, animal sacrifice, immolation
- animal crueltyanimal abuse, animal cruelty, dogfighting, neglect, torture
- killingshomicide, murder for hire, killing, assassination, first-degree murder
- Temple sacrificessacrifices, burnt offering, sin offering, peace offering, drink offering
- wildlife mortalitymortality rate, die-off, mass die-off, natural death, natural causes
slaughtermercy
Compassion toward offenders
pardon · clemency · compassion · gentleness · forgiveness
- lamb to the slaughterOne unknowingly approaching harm
- lamb to slaughterOne unknowingly facing destruction
- Slaughterhouse FiveAntiwar postmodern fiction
- humane slaughterDeath with least distress
- ritual slaughterReligiously mandated animal killing
- halal slaughterIslamic butchering practice
slaughtered, manslaughter, slaughtering, slaughterhouse, slaughterer, slaughters, slaughterers, slaughterman, slaughtermen