as in massacres
the killing of a large number of people
all civilized nations should protest this senseless slaughter
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as in murders
to kill on a large scale
modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day
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Recent Examples of slaughters
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
Meanwhile, Du-yeong slaughters an entire building of bloodhounds in the search for So-yeon.
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Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Apr. 2026
The only question is, how many more must be killed, before the world wakes up to the genocide that slaughters thousands of Christians every year.
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Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
17 Mar. 2026
Noun
Hands-down one of the most disgusting movies ever made (a compliment), the film finds the indefatigable slasher, who was decapitated at the end of Terrifier 2, reattaching his head and commencing his ritual slaughters.
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Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
31 Oct. 2025
Verb
And then there is a gory massacre scene from the original Camp Miasma, in which Little Death (played by TV Glow‘s Jack Haven) slaughters dozens of unlucky campers to a highly unusual, anachronistic hit song from the 1990s.
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David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
Meanwhile, Du-yeong slaughters an entire building of bloodhounds in the search for So-yeon.
—
Kayti Burt,
Time,
3 Apr. 2026
The only question is, how many more must be killed, before the world wakes up to the genocide that slaughters thousands of Christians every year.
—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
17 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughters
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The lands historically now known as Ukraine were occupied by the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth for centuries, and many Ukrainians view their nation’s genesis as the rebellion of Cossack Hetman Boghdan Khmelnitsky against the commonwealth, an event characterized by massacres of Poles and Jews.
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Tens of thousands of Sudanese civilians were killed by the RSF in massacres after the capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher alone last year.
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Kingpin’s enforcer Buck Cashman (Arty Froushan) shockingly murders Deputy Mayor Daniel Blake (Michael Gandolfini) in a showdown of Fisk’s two right-hand men.
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Geillis, on her quest to install Bonnie Prince Charlie on the throne, murders her husband as a blood sacrifice and walks through the stones.
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Kerry Washington completely dismissing Seth Meyers’s home life absolutely slays.
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With the Land Rover Terrain Response System offering modes comprising Eco, Dynamic, Grass/Gravel/Snow, Mud & Ruts, Sand, Rock Crawl, and Wade, the tech takes the geographic and meteorological elements and slays them with a flick of a control.
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When an agent executes a refund policy, a credit decision, an escalation rule—that is your operating model running in production.
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Director Wes Craven executes a masterclass in tension, shock, and subverting expectations.
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An agent that cannot reliably query real-time pricing and inventory, or that cannot preserve brand logic through a checkout flow, destroys the value that luxury merchants have spent decades building.
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April freeze destroys crops Early on the morning of April 21, temperatures in Maryland dropped into the low 20s after weeks of unseasonably warm weather.
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“Slaughters.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/slaughters. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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