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Nouns
(n)
slaughter
the killing of animals (as for food)
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(n)
thrashing
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walloping
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debacle
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drubbing
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slaughter
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trouncing
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whipping
a sound defeat
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(n)
slaughter
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massacre
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mass murder
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carnage
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butchery
the savage and excessive killing of many people
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Verbs
(v)
butcher
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slaughter
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
“They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter”
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(v)
massacre
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slaughter
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mow down
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
“The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda”
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