Dictionary definition · slaughter
noun
- the killing of animals (as for food)
- a sound defeat
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
verb
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).