n. 25B6; verb
the animals were slaughtered : KILL, butcher.
innocent civilians are being slaughtered : MASSACRE, murder, butcher, kill (off), annihilate, exterminate, liquidate, eliminate, destroy, decimate, wipe out, put to death; poetic/literary slay.
(informal) their team were slaughtered. : See defeat verb sense 1.
25B6; noun
the slaughter of 20 demonstrators : MASSACRE, murdering, (mass) murder, mass killing, mass execution, annihilation, extermination, liquidation, decimation, carnage, butchery, genocide; poetic/literary slaying.
a scene of slaughter : CARNAGE, bloodshed, bloodletting, bloodbath.
(informal) their electoral slaughter. : See defeat noun sense 1.