transcription, транскрипция: [ slɔ:tə(r) ]
( slaughters, slaughtering, slaughtered)
1.
If large numbers of people or animals are slaughtered , they are killed in a way that is cruel or unnecessary.
Thirty four people were slaughtered while queuing up to cast their votes...
VERB : usu passive , be V-ed
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Slaughter is also a noun.
...a war where the slaughter of civilians was commonplace...
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2.
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.
VERB : V n
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Slaughter is also a noun.
More than 491,000 sheep were exported to the Continent for slaughter last year.
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