What does "slaughter" mean?
Slaughter: To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak.
Additional senses
- 2.To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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