slaughtered

past tense of slaughter

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Recent Examples of slaughtered Per the title, Aang is the last surviving airbender after his pacifist brethren were slaughtered by a belligerent, expansionist Fire Nation. Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026 Deputies unlawfully confiscated Cedar, who was then slaughtered before his family ever had the chance to challenge the seizure in court. Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026 Up to 182,000 Kurds were slaughtered by Hussein’s forces, including 5,000 in one day in the infamous chemical attack on Halabja on March 16, 1988. Paul Iddon, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026 That year, the number of possible points had changed from two hundred to four hundred, and the newspapers reported that this test had slaughtered hordes of top students. Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026 The Trojans were the ones who foolishly dragged the horse inside their own city, went to sleep, and then got slaughtered when the Greek soldiers climbed out and opened the gates. Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 The Greeks waited inside, and when the Trojan horse was brought inside the city walls, Odysseus and the Greeks snuck out, opened the gates of the city to the waiting Greek army, and slaughtered the Trojans to win the war. Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026 The one where a man, his mother, and his entire army are slaughtered by deceit? Brian Moylan, Vulture, 16 July 2026 First, the animals whose skins would become parchment—typically sheep or calves—had to be slaughtered; a complete bible required the skins of around five hundred sheep. Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
Verb
  • At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.
    Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
  • Her great-grandparents, innkeepers in modern-day Belarus, were massacred by the Nazis along with most of their town.
    Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 18 June 2026
Verb
  • Showcasing its range, a different Britain’s Most Notorious Crime Investigations ep tells the story of Mahek Bukhari, a TikTok influencer who murdered her mother’s lover and his friend in a high-speed car chase.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 22 July 2026
  • The Girl in the River centers on an experienced criminologist and a young psychologist who head to a small Mississippi town after a girl is murdered and her twin sister goes missing.
    Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026
Verb
  • One of the most famous examples comes from Archbishop Óscar Romero, who was assassinated in 1980 and declared a saint by Pope Francis in 2018.
    Gina Perez, The Conversation, 21 July 2026
  • The 48-year-old daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte is accused of corruption, bribery, misappropriating millions in government funds and threatening to have the current president, Ferdinand Marcos Jr, assassinated.
    Harriet Marsden, TheWeek, 9 July 2026

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