I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
animal
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Only criminals may slaughter animals so that the population at large is not brutalized.
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Back then quarantines turned farmers against each other and in some cases farmers were forced to slaughter their own animals .
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He urged the Government to call in the army to help to incinerate slaughtered animals .
cattle
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The abattoirs are licensed to slaughter cattle not destined for the food chain.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
like a lamb to the slaughter
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As part of the ceremony a cow was slaughtered and placed on the stone altar.
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Hundreds of civilians had been slaughtered by government troops.
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Men ran through the village burning houses and slaughtering the inhabitants.
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Men, women and children were slaughtered in groups by their captors.
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The Knicks got slaughtered in the semifinal.
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The only way to stop the virus spreading is by slaughtering all infected animals.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Arledge said she is not against sending horses to slaughter .
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Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape.
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Estimates of the number slaughtered vary from 30,000 to 70,000.
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From then on, the story turns into little more than an account of men slaughtering each other.
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His great dragon Nightfang went berserk and slaughtered many Dark Elves and their slave troops.
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Many of them had been ruthlessly slaughtered by the ancestors of our Secretary of the Interior.
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More than 3,190,600 animals have been slaughtered.
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Too many Trojans had been slaughtered in the first surprise.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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The men were knocked away from them with great rapidity and slaughter by the terrible fire of the enemy.
mass
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This means the High Elves must rely on their bowmen and their magicians for long range mass slaughter .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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His war crimes included the deliberate slaughter of 250,000 individuals.
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Many are determined to avenge the slaughter in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Most of the cattle will be sent for slaughter .
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The slaughter was terrible - the whole field was covered with bodies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And why not give the slaughter of this young magnificent creature a sacred meaning equal to the experience of giving it death?
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De Klerk warned Parliament on April 29 that the continuing slaughter could lead to civil war.
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Now aged 99, he still has vivid memories of the slaughter .
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On the contrary, they had refrained from acting earlier even though they knew of the slaughter .
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Technology had advanced since the appalling slaughter of the Great War.
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The men were knocked away from them with great rapidity and slaughter by the terrible fire of the enemy.
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They could only leave the zone if they were going directly to the slaughter house.