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
At Spring Festival, the Chinese New Year, a few pigs would be slaughtered and the pork rationed out.
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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
Before refrigeration – so a long, long time ago – pigs were slaughtered in the fall, preserved and cured to keep safe through the winter months.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
As part of this act of atonement, four bulls and four heifers are slaughtered at the sanctuaries of the nymphs, and their bodies are left in a grove.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
That is the most in modern history, more than in 2018, the last time Republicans got slaughtered in the midterm election.
—ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
But news of Anthropic testing its most powerful AI model yet slaughtered enterprise software stocks Friday.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
The elders will die, abandoned by their children, and their reindeer will be slaughtered or absorbed into bigger industrial-sized herds.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
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
Before refrigeration – so a long, long time ago – pigs were slaughtered in the fall, preserved and cured to keep safe through the winter months.
—Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 2 Apr. 2026
As part of this act of atonement, four bulls and four heifers are slaughtered at the sanctuaries of the nymphs, and their bodies are left in a grove.
—Encyclopedia Britannica, 1 Apr. 2026
That is the most in modern history, more than in 2018, the last time Republicans got slaughtered in the midterm election.
—ABC News, 29 Mar. 2026
But news of Anthropic testing its most powerful AI model yet slaughtered enterprise software stocks Friday.
—Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
The elders will die, abandoned by their children, and their reindeer will be slaughtered or absorbed into bigger industrial-sized herds.
—Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
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As many as eight thousand citizens were massacred.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Tradition says that on the 10th of Muharram, Husayn and his companions met Yazid’s military on the battlefield and were massacred.—
Mary Thurlkill,
The Conversation,
30 Mar. 2026
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The quirky, all-ages murder mystery features a starry ensemble including Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson and Nicholas Braun, as well as the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Bryan Cranston, Regina Hall and Patrick Stewart as the sheep who try to figure out who murdered their shepherd.—
Lindsey Bahr,
Fortune,
11 May 2026
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Tate was murdered along with celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, coffee heiress Abigail Folger and writer Wojciech Frykowski.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
11 May 2026
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This happened with the shooting at NFL headquarters in New York City, when Charlie Kirk was assassinated, and to a lesser extent, with the recent incident at the White House Correspondents dinner.—
Lorena O’Neil,
Rolling Stone,
11 May 2026
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Luistro also cited threats made by the vice president during an online news conference in 2024 to have Marcos, his wife and Romualdez killed by an assassin if she herself was assassinated, as their political disputes escalated.—
Jim Gomez,
Los Angeles Times,
11 May 2026
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“Slaughtered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughtered. Accessed 12 May. 2026.
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