Synonyms of slaughtering

slaughtering

verb

present participle of slaughter

as in murdering

to kill on a large scale

modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murdering
• massacring
• slaying
• executing
• destroying
• dispatching
• butchering
• assassinating
• mowing (down)
• demolishing
• eradicating
• exterminating
• smiting
• wasting
• wiping out
• annihilating
• felling
• devastating
• snuffing
• decimating
• doing in
• croaking
• blotting out

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slaughtering

In the present, Kirk has to stop Reeger from wholesale slaughtering an entire planet, which involves beaming into the bowels of the ship to sabotage the ship’s phaser banks. — Keith Phipps, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2026

Many have pointed to the pandemic for slaughtering a number of independent cinemas, but let’s face it, even with streaming easing, the format has made moviegoers more discerning about what’s worth their attention and dollars outside the home. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2026

But when his ice cream-eating schoolmates begin slaughtering their parents overnight, seemingly fueled by the wafting sound of the truck jingle and old-timey black-and-white animations invading their phones, Jared seems like the lucky one. — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2026

Disease had significantly weakened Tenochtitlán’s ability to withstand Cortés’s siege, and the Europeans eventually wore the Aztec warriors down and broke through the city’s defenses, slaughtering the Aztecs and destroying the city. — Jordana Rosenfeld, Encyclopedia Britannica, 17 June 2026

Later on, plundering Barbary pirates raided Mallorca, looting possessions, slaughtering inhabitants and capturing others for the slave trade. — Norma Meyer, Oc Register, 27 May 2026

Here, up to 20 courses are prepared with ritual precision, from seafood treated with the ikejime (humane fish-slaughtering) method, to rice and wasabi sourced from long-standing Japanese suppliers. — Rachel Ingram, Robb Report, 10 May 2026

Livestock numbers are strictly controlled on Tristan, and the community manages the herd by occasionally slaughtering animals for meat and leather. — NPR, 4 Apr. 2026

One thinks of the hundred brothers that Donald Antrim imagined, gathering in the ancestral home to honor their father’s memory and ritually slaughtering one of their own. — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026