Thesaurus results for 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

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Recent Examples of slaughtering 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 Before openly slaughtering thousands of protesters last month, Iran’s leaders had rejected chance after chance to improve the lives of their own people. — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 26 Feb. 2026 After recently slaughtering thousands of peaceful protesters, including shooting protesters in their hospital beds, Iran has been elected by the UN to serve as vice chair of the UN Commission for Social Development. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 Feb. 2026 Some parts of Route 65 looked more like an artillery range, with rim-bending, tire-tearing, and suspension-slaughtering potholes blossoming from the black top. — Ross Guidotti, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026

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She was eventually charged with murdering nine people, including several of her tenants.

— Selome Hailu, Variety, 7 July 2026
He was charged with murder with the special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, murder for financial gain and murdering a witness.

— Dennis Broad, NBC news, 7 July 2026

Definition of murdering

Verb

Nawrocki this month stripped Zelenskyy of Poland’s highest state honor, because Zelenskyy named a military unit after a Ukrainian paramilitary organization accused of massacring Poles during the war.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 June 2026
President Karol Nawrocki decided to strip Zelensky of the Order of the White Eagle over the Ukrainian leader’s decision to name a military unit after a Ukrainian paramilitary organization accused of massacring Poles during World War II.

— Claudia Ciobanu, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026

Definition of massacring

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In that case, authorities believe the mother was responsible for slaying the family and then killing herself.

— Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
The new team, nicknamed the Vatreni (the blazers or the fiery ones), was considered a rank outsider, and few expected the masterful giant-slaying campaign that Croatia delivered.

— Tushaar Kuthiala, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 June 2026

Definition of slaying

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An enhanced asynchronous inference mechanism allows robots to predict future states while executing actions and continuously update decisions using real-world observations.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 July 2026
Fenton brought along his up-tempo, no-huddle offense from Los Alamitos, and quarterbacks Ezrah Brown and Reagan Toki were executing it in midseason form.

— Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026

Definition of executing

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After flying toward a naval target over the Black Sea, the aircraft launched one of the supersonic missiles from a stand-off distance exceeding 120 kilometers, successfully destroying its target.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 14 July 2026
Los Angeles Fire Department arson investigators are probing a destructive fire that ripped through a Sun Valley strip mall early Sunday morning, destroying a beloved family-run market.

— Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 14 July 2026

Definition of destroying

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Atalanta’s De Ketelaere scored his first goals of the tournament, dispatching two from close range, while the metronomic Youri Tielemens was excellent in a slightly more advanced midfield role.

— Tim Spiers, New York Times, 7 July 2026
And the first round this year certainly had its shining moments – from demolishing Paraguay to tidily dispatching Australia.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2026

Definition of dispatching

Verb

The theory is that individuals became infected by a strain that was particularly lethal to the young through close contact with marmots (rodents that are known reservoirs of the plague), perhaps while butchering them.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 6 July 2026
Normally, that involves making stone tools, butchering deer, or distilling birch tar.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 2 June 2026

Definition of butchering

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