slaughterings
Wholesale brutal killings
Slaughterings are acts of killing, especially the butchering of animals for food or the violent killing of many people.
The word emphasizes the process or multiple instances: the slaughterings at the meatpacking plant, the slaughterings continued through the night.
It can describe figurative massacres: the slaughterings of small businesses by corporate giants.
Brutal group killings
- killingsActs causing death
- carnageWidespread violent death
- bloodshedKilling and wounding
- butcherySavage killing
atrocities · genocide · mass murder · executions · bloodbaths · pogroms · ethnic cleansing · exterminations
Acts of killing messily
- killingsActs causing death
- abattoirMeat processing facility
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
- processingSystematic operation on data
halal · kosher · cullings · stockyard · bloodletting · carcasses · rendering · meat
Severe beatings or defeats
- routsDecisive, overwhelming defeats
- drubbingsOverwhelming defeats or beatings
- demolitionsDeliberate structural destructions
- annihilationsComplete destructions of something
beatings · blowouts · shellackings · massacres · destruction · humiliations · landslides · walkovers
massacres
Brutal group killings
butchery · atrocities · genocide · mass murder · executions · bloodbaths · pogroms · ethnic cleansing · exterminations · purges
butcherings
Acts of killing messily
- killingsActs causing death
- abattoirMeat processing facility
- meatpackingProcessing livestock into food
processing · halal · kosher · cullings · stockyard · bloodletting · carcasses · rendering · meat · hogs
thrashings
Severe beatings or defeats
- routsDecisive, overwhelming defeats
- drubbingsOverwhelming defeats or beatings
- demolitionsDeliberate structural destructions
annihilations · beatings · blowouts · shellackings · massacres · destruction · humiliations · landslides · walkovers · whitewashes
slaughteringsrescues
Frees from danger
salvations · preservations · savings · protections · deliverances