'Slaughter' definitions:
Definition of 'slaughter'
(from WordNet)
noun
The killing of animals (as for food)
noun
noun
The savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]
verb
Kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn: butcher, slaughter]
verb
Definition of 'Slaughter'
From: GCIDE
- Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, n. [OE. slautir, slaughter, slaghter, Icel. sl[=a]tr slain flesh, modified by OE. slaught, slaht, slaughter, fr. AS. sleaht a stroke, blow; both from the root of E. slay. See Slay, v. t., and cf. Onslaught.] The act of killing. Specifically: (a) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. [1913 Webster]
- On war and mutual slaughter bent. --Milton. [1913 Webster] (b) The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder; havoc. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Slaughter'
From: GCIDE
- Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaughtered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaughtering.]
- 1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. [1913 Webster]
- Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'slaughter'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- annihilate,
- annihilation,
- assault,
- attack,
- bane,
- barbarize,
- batter,
- battering,
- blood,
- bloodbath,
- bloodletting,
- bloodshed,
- blue ruin,
- braining,
- breakup,
- brutalize,
- burn,
- butcher,
- butchering,
- butchery,
- carnage,
- carry on,
- commit carnage,
- commit genocide,
- commit mass murder,
- consumption,
- cut off,
- cut short,
- damnation,
- dealing death,
- decimate,
- decimation,
- depopulate,
- depredation,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destroy,
- destruction,
- destruction of life,
- devastation,
- disintegration,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- dispatch,
- dispose of,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- do away with,
- end,
- euthanasia,
- execution,
- exterminate,
- extermination,
- finish,
- finish off,
- flow of blood,
- forcible seizure,
- get rid of,
- go on,
- gore,
- hammer,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- immolation,
- kill,
- killing,
- lapidation,
- lay waste,
- laying waste,
- loot,
- looting,
- maim,
- make away with,
- mangle,
- martyrdom,
- martyrization,
- massacre,
- maul,
- mercy killing,
- mug,
- murder,
- murder wholesale,
- mutilate,
- nip,
- obstreperousness,
- occision,
- onslaught,
- perdition,
- pillage,
- pillaging,
- poisoning,
- put paid to,
- rage,
- ramp,
- rampage,
- rant,
- rape,
- ravage,
- rave,
- riot,
- rioting,
- ritual killing,
- ritual murder,
- roar,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- sack,
- sacking,
- sacrifice,
- savage,
- shambles,
- shooting,
- slaughtering,
- slay,
- slay en masse,
- slaying,
- sow chaos,
- sowing with salt,
- spoliation,
- stick,
- stoning,
- storm,
- take off,
- taking of life,
- tear,
- tear around,
- terrorize,
- to,
- torture,
- total,
- undoing,
- unruliness,
- vandalism,
- vandalize,
- violate,
- violation,
- waste,
- wipe out,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck
Slaughter, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Slaughter, LA -- U.S. village in Louisiana
Population (2000) :
1011
Housing Units (2000) :
376
Land area (2000) :
5.484612 sq. miles (14.205078 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.008698 sq. miles (0.022529 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
5.493310 sq. miles (14.227607 sq. km)
FIPS code :
70770
Located within :
Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location :
30.716484 N, 91.144506 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
70777
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.