as in massacred
to kill on a large scale
modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day
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Recent Examples of slaughtered
It’s killed and slaughtered a lot of innocent people.
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NBC news, 7 June 2026
The animal was originally meant to be slaughtered for the Muslim festival of sacrifice.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
But that isn't the only animal trauma that's stuck with me through the years, a fact that I was reminded of when watching episode 4 of Dutton Ranch and listening to cows scream as they were slaughtered.
—Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
When the MPKs didn’t know the Marines’ secret code word, the Marines slaughtered them and then shrugged and walked away from all their dead bodies to stay on mission (as in, kill more Marsies).
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2026
As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
At Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year, a few pigs would be slaughtered and the pork rationed out.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Pigs were illegally slaughtered there.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Halal is hand-slaughtered by Muslims.
—Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
NBC news, 7 June 2026
The animal was originally meant to be slaughtered for the Muslim festival of sacrifice.
—ABC News, 3 June 2026
But that isn't the only animal trauma that's stuck with me through the years, a fact that I was reminded of when watching episode 4 of Dutton Ranch and listening to cows scream as they were slaughtered.
—Samantha Highfill, Entertainment Weekly, 1 June 2026
When the MPKs didn’t know the Marines’ secret code word, the Marines slaughtered them and then shrugged and walked away from all their dead bodies to stay on mission (as in, kill more Marsies).
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 29 May 2026
As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 18 May 2026
At Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year, a few pigs would be slaughtered and the pork rationed out.
—Michael Sheridan, Vanity Fair, 8 Apr. 2026
Pigs were illegally slaughtered there.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 5 Apr. 2026
Halal is hand-slaughtered by Muslims.
—Steve Metsch, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
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Retroactively, they were interpreted as premonitions of the 1994 violence that saw many thousands of locals, primarily Tutsis, massacred at the hands of Hutu Génocidaires.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
26 May 2026
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The ethnic Hutu business tycoon was indicted on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity for allegedly arming Hutu militias that massacred more than 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis in 1994.—
Sudarsan Raghavan,
Washington Post,
16 May 2026
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If someone was caught, and murdered, scraps of their body were circulated as souvenirs and passed down through generations of white families as heirlooms.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 June 2026
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Austrians believe he was murdered for refusing to join the German team.—
Blair Kerkhoff,
Kansas City Star,
8 June 2026
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In 1979, Pamela’s father, Lord Louis Mountbatten, was assassinated by the IRA when a bomb exploded aboard his fishing boat.—
Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
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Jordan was later elected to the Missouri House of Representatives before being assassinated and killed outside the Green Duck in 1970.—
J.M. Banks
June 1,
Kansas City Star,
1 June 2026
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