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
In September, at least 89 Christians were reportedly slaughtered by jihadists at a funeral and in surrounding fields.
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Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
That premonition rings true when his parents (Tara Buckman, Geoff Hansen) are slaughtered by a carjacker dressed as Old Saint Nick himself (Charles Dierkop) just hours later, condemning the toddler into further moral compass trauma at an orphanage run by a domineering Mother Superior nun from Hell.
—Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Instead of celebrating a Jewish holiday, Jews were slaughtered.
—Michael Collins, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
The stone in question was discovered and hidden by Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a fisherman forced to work in the diamond fields after the rebel army of the Revolutionary United Front slaughtered or mutilated nearly everyone in his village.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
At its peak, the Armour complex had 4,000 employees who slaughtered nearly 2,000 animals an hour.
—Mars King, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
The Blackfeet Nation in northwest Montana declared a state of emergency, and slaughtered 18 buffalo from its herd.
—Aaron Bolton, NPR, 30 Nov. 2025
According to Farm Sanctuary, over 46 million turkeys are slaughtered each year for Thanksgiving meals.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
Apart from Ciri, who assumed the fake name Falka and spent the season with the group, the Rats are extremely dead — not just slaughtered by Leo Bonhart but decapitated with each of their heads sawed off and dumped into a barrel for preservation.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Paul Tilsley, FOXNews.com, 28 Dec. 2025
That premonition rings true when his parents (Tara Buckman, Geoff Hansen) are slaughtered by a carjacker dressed as Old Saint Nick himself (Charles Dierkop) just hours later, condemning the toddler into further moral compass trauma at an orphanage run by a domineering Mother Superior nun from Hell.
—Huntley Woods, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Dec. 2025
Instead of celebrating a Jewish holiday, Jews were slaughtered.
—Michael Collins, USA Today, 15 Dec. 2025
The stone in question was discovered and hidden by Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a fisherman forced to work in the diamond fields after the rebel army of the Revolutionary United Front slaughtered or mutilated nearly everyone in his village.
—Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 8 Dec. 2025
At its peak, the Armour complex had 4,000 employees who slaughtered nearly 2,000 animals an hour.
—Mars King, Twin Cities, 5 Dec. 2025
The Blackfeet Nation in northwest Montana declared a state of emergency, and slaughtered 18 buffalo from its herd.
—Aaron Bolton, NPR, 30 Nov. 2025
According to Farm Sanctuary, over 46 million turkeys are slaughtered each year for Thanksgiving meals.
—Kelli Bender, PEOPLE, 25 Nov. 2025
Apart from Ciri, who assumed the fake name Falka and spent the season with the group, the Rats are extremely dead — not just slaughtered by Leo Bonhart but decapitated with each of their heads sawed off and dumped into a barrel for preservation.
—Scott Meslow, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
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One of them, the Luisita Golf Course and Country Club, was built over a former sugar plantation where 14 striking workers were massacred in 2004.—
David Ehrlich,
IndieWire,
23 Jan. 2026
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The main argument, though, was fragmentation for the sake of peace among the population - that is, for the benefit of the people being massacred by a powerful central regime, now and in years past.—
Melik Kaylan,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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James Folta Talks to Bookseller Angela Schwesnedl Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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Eger watched her parents taken away to the gas chambers where more than a million people, primarily of Jewish descent, were murdered.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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In September, Kirk was assassinated in front of three thousand students at Utah Valley University while debating a liberal audience member about gun control.—
Charles Duhigg,
New Yorker,
26 Jan. 2026
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He was assassinated that night.—
Matt Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Jan. 2026
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