SLAUGHTER


Meaning of SLAUGHTER in English

I.

noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ indiscriminate , mass , wholesale

the indiscriminate ~ of civilians

▪ brutal , senseless , terrible

▪ ritual

▪ animal

humane forms of animal ~

▪ halal , kosher

She supports a ban on kosher and halal ~, believing that such methods are cruel.

VERB + SLAUGHTER

▪ end , prevent , stop

We were helpless to stop the ~.

▪ ban

federal legislation to ban horse ~

▪ order

Officials ordered the ~ of hundreds of animals.

PREPOSITION

▪ for ~

the transporting of live horses for ~

PHRASES

▪ the ~ of innocents

the horrors of civil war and the ~ of innocents

II.

verb

1 kill an animal

ADVERB

▪ humanely

The animals are all humanely ~ed.

▪ ritually

▪ illegally

elephants illegally ~ed by poachers

PREPOSITION

▪ for

Thousands of birds were ~ed for their feathers.

2 kill a large number of people

ADVERB

▪ brutally , cruelly

Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly ~ed.

▪ indiscriminately

▪ systematically

Thousands of people were systematically ~ed by their oppressors.

Slaughter is used with these nouns as the object: ↑ animal , ↑ cattle , ↑ cow , ↑ lamb , ↑ pig , ↑ sheep

Oxford Collocations English Dictionary.      Оксфордский английский словарь словосочетаний .