slaughter

/slˈɔtɚ/ · 2 syllables

Meaning

noun

1. the killing of animals (as for food)
2. a sound defeat
3. the savage and excessive killing of many people

verb

1. kill (animals) usually for food consumption
   “They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”
2. kill a large number of people indiscriminately
   “The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda”

Synonyms for slaughter

• thrashing
• walloping
• debacle
• drubbing
• trouncing
• whipping
• massacre
• mass murder
• carnage
• butchery
• butcher
• mow down

Words that rhyme with slaughter

• water
• backwater
• tidewater
• underwater
• breakwater
• daughter
• freshwater
• granddaughter
• headwater
• manslaughter
• rainwater
• stepdaughter
• wastewater
• whitewater
• boughter
• bridgewater
• bywater
• clearwater
• coldwater
• deepwater
• drinkwater
• fitswater
• fitzwater
• floodwater
• goldwater
• lawter
• pinkwater
• sautter
• sidewater
• stillwater