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The meaning of SLAUGHTER is the act of killing; specifically : the butchering of livestock for market. How to use slaughter in a sentence.

SLAUGHTER definition: 1. the killing of many people cruelly and unfairly, especially in a war: 2. the killing of animals…. Learn more.

Slaughter and butcher, primarily referring to the killing of animals for food, are used also of the brutal or indiscriminate killing of human beings: to slaughter cattle; to butcher a hog.

1. The killing of animals especially for food. 2. The killing of a large number of people; a massacre: "I could not give my name to aid the slaughter in this war, fought on both sides for …

Definition of slaughter noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

To slaughter animals such as cows and sheep means to kill them for their meat. Lack of chicken feed means that chicken farms are having to slaughter their stock. Slaughter is also a noun. …

SLAUGHTER meaning: 1 : to kill (an animal) for food; 2 : to kill (many people) in a very violent way

1 day ago · slaughter (third-person singular simple present slaughters, present participle slaughtering, simple past and past participle slaughtered) (transitive) To butcher animals, …

Workers and cattle in a slaughterhouse in 1942 In livestock agriculture and the meat industry, a slaughterhouse, also called an abattoir (/ ˈæbətwɑːr / ⓘ), is a facility where livestock animals …