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
Verb
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Last week, Chicago police Officer John Bartholomew was murdered in the line of duty by a seven-time felon on parole who had multiple criminal arrest warrants, according to authorities.—
Silvana Tabares,
Chicago Tribune,
4 May 2026
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The case of 19-year-old Kristin Smart, who was murdered in her California Polytechnic State University dorm room in 1996, went cold until 2019 when Christopher Lambert, then a Cal Poly student, started a podcast, Your Own Backyard.—
The Week US,
TheWeek,
4 May 2026
Verb
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These attacks often provided a larger cultural pretext for the campaigns of extralegal political violence that terrorized Black voters in the South, assassinated political leaders, and marred the integrity of several of the region’s major elections.—
Robert D. Bland,
The Conversation,
30 Apr. 2026
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An al-Qaida affiliate and an allied separatist group assassinated Mali’s defense minister and captured key territory in the country’s north during the attacks.—
Preeti Jha,
semafor.com,
29 Apr. 2026
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“Slaughtered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughtered. Accessed 9 May. 2026.
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