the killing of animals (as for food)

a sound defeat

[ Syn: thrashing , walloping , debacle , drubbing , trouncing , whipping ]

the savage and excessive killing of many people

[ Syn: massacre , mass murder , carnage , butchery ]

kill (animals) usually for food consumption; They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter

[ Syn: butcher ]

kill a large number of people indiscriminately; The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda

[ Syn: massacre , mow down ]