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