slaughtered
Killed in great numbers
Slaughtered is the past tense of slaughter—to kill animals for food or to kill people violently and in large numbers: The villagers were slaughtered by invading forces.
In casual speech, slaughtered describes overwhelming defeat: We got slaughtered 42 to nothing.
In British slang, slaughtered means extremely drunk: He was absolutely slaughtered by midnight.
Killed and dismembered crudely
- massacredKilled many brutally
- murderedKilled with intent
- killedCaused to die
- executedCarried out or killed
slain · culled · dispatched · exterminated · sacrificed · put down · euthanized · bloodshed
Defeated decisively
- vanquishedDefeated completely
- routedOverwhelmingly defeated
- annihilatedCompletely destroyed, nothing remaining
- crushedCompressed into fragments
decimated · thrashed · walloped · clobbered · drubbed · hammered · shellacked · demolished
butchered
Killed and dismembered crudely
executed · slain · culled · dispatched · exterminated · sacrificed · put down · euthanized · bloodshed · carnage
trounced
Defeated decisively
- vanquishedDefeated completely
- routedOverwhelmingly defeated
- annihilatedCompletely destroyed, nothing remaining
crushed · decimated · thrashed · walloped · clobbered · drubbed · hammered · shellacked · demolished · obliterated
savage
Fierce and untamed
vicious · ruthless · cruel · heinous · monstrous · atrocity · butchery · genocide · pogrom · ethnic cleansing
- demolishedbeaten, defeated, crushed, destroyed, demolished
- killedkilled, murdered, slain, assassinated, executed
- 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