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slaughter
Overview of noun slaughter
The noun slaughter has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) slaughter -- (the killing of animals (as for food))
2. (1) thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping -- (a sound defeat)
3. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
Overview of verb slaughter
The verb slaughter has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (3) butcher, slaughter -- (kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter")
2. (2) massacre, slaughter, mow down -- (kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slaughter
3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
=> killing, kill, putting to death
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 2
thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
=> defeat, licking
=> ending, conclusion, finish
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
=> failure
=> happening, occurrence, occurrent, natural event
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> murder, slaying, execution
=> homicide
=> killing, kill, putting to death
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun slaughter
1 of 3 senses of slaughter
Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue
HAS INSTANCE=> Alamo
HAS INSTANCE=> Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slaughter
3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
=> killing, kill, putting to death
Sense 2
thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
=> defeat, licking
Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> murder, slaying, execution
Antonyms of noun slaughter
Member Holonyms of noun slaughter
Substance Holonyms of noun slaughter
Part Holonyms of noun slaughter
1 of 3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
PART OF: butchery, butchering
Member Meronyms of noun slaughter
Substance Meronyms of noun slaughter
Part Meronyms of noun slaughter
Meronyms of noun slaughter
Holonyms of noun slaughter
1 of 3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
PART OF: butchery, butchering
Attributes of noun slaughter
Derived Forms of noun slaughter
2 of 3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
RELATED TO>(verb) slaughter#1
=> butcher, slaughter
Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
RELATED TO>(adj) slaughterous#1
=> gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, slaughterous, butcherly
RELATED TO>(verb) slaughter#2
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
Domain of noun slaughter
Domain Terms of noun slaughter
Familiarity of noun slaughter
slaughter used as a noun is uncommon (polysemy count =3)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun slaughter
3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
> killing, kill, putting to death
=> deathblow, coup de grace
=> death
=> euthanasia, mercy killing
=> homicide
=> dispatch, despatch
=> fell
=> suicide, self-destruction, self-annihilation
=> slaughter
=> poisoning
=> suffocation, asphyxiation
=> sacrifice, ritual killing
=> electrocution
=> decapitation, beheading
=> genocide, race murder, racial extermination
Sense 2
thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
> defeat, licking
=> rout
=> lurch
=> shutout, skunk
=> thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, slaughter, trouncing, whipping
=> waterloo
=> whitewash
Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
> murder, slaying, execution
=> assassination
=> bloodshed, gore
=> contract killing
=> parricide
=> mariticide
=> fratricide
=> uxoricide
=> filicide
=> elimination, liquidation
=> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> lynching
=> regicide
=> dry-gulching
=> hit
=> infanticide
=> shoot-down
=> tyrannicide
=> thuggee
Meronyms of noun slaughter
3 senses of slaughter
Holonyms of noun slaughter
1 of 3 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
slaughter
PART OF: butchery, butchering
Grep of noun slaughter
manslaughter
slaughter
slaughterer
slaughterhouse
Antonyms of verb slaughter
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slaughter
2 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
=> kill
Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> kill
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb slaughter
1 of 2 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
=> chine
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slaughter
2 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
=> kill
Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> kill
'Cause To' of verb slaughter
Derived Forms of verb slaughter
2 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
RELATED TO>(noun) slaughter#1
=> slaughter
RELATED TO>(noun) slaughterer#1
=> butcher, slaughterer
Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down
RELATED TO>(noun) slaughter#3
=> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
Domain of verb slaughter
Domain Terms of verb slaughter
Familiarity of verb slaughter
slaughter used as a verb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Sample Sentences of verb slaughter
2 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
*> Somebody ----s something
*> Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down
EX: They want to slaughter the prisoners
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb slaughter
2 senses of slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb slaughter
Sense 1
butcher, slaughter
=> kill
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Sense 2
massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> kill
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Grep of verb slaughter
slaughter
Grep of adj slaughter
slaughterous
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