slaughter (noun)
1: the killing of animals (as for food)
2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping]
3: the savage and excessive killing of many people [syn: massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery]
slaughter
(verb)
1: kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn: butcher]
2: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, [[mow down]]]