slaughterer
One who kills
A slaughterer is one who slaughters—killing animals for food or killing people in large numbers.
The word applies to workers in meatpacking plants and to perpetrators of massacres alike: The slaughterers worked through hundreds of cattle daily; History remembers him as a slaughterer of innocents.
murderer
One who unlawfully kills
- executionerOne who kills condemned
- assassinPaid murderer of targets
- slayerOne who kills
manslayer · hitman · predator · perpetrator · assailant · aggressor · butcher · massacre · carnage · bloodshed
abattoir
Meat processing facility
shambles · boning · carving · deboning · jointing · offal · flensing · skinning · bleeding · stunning
- Jewish livestockkosher animals, shechita, shochet, kosher butchers, kosher certification
- food workersbutcher, bartender, server, caterer, chef
slaughterervictim
One harmed by another
prey · quarry · casualty · sacrifice · lamb to the slaughter
- 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
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