Meaning of "slaughter" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD SLAUGHTER

Old English sleaht; related to Old Norse slāttar hammering, slātr butchered meat, Old High German slahta, Gothic slauhts, German Schlacht battle.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF SLAUGHTER

slaughter  [ˈslɔːtə]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SLAUGHTER

Slaughter is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb slaughter in English.

WHAT DOES SLAUGHTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of slaughter in the English dictionary

The first definition of slaughter in the dictionary is the killing of animals, esp for food. Other definition of slaughter is the savage killing of a person. Slaughter is also the indiscriminate or brutal killing of large numbers of people, as in war; massacre.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO SLAUGHTER

PRESENT

Present

I slaughter

you slaughter

he/she/it slaughters

we slaughter

you slaughter

they slaughter

Present continuous

I am slaughtering

you are slaughtering

he/she/it is slaughtering

we are slaughtering

you are slaughtering

they are slaughtering

Present perfect

I have slaughtered

you have slaughtered

he/she/it has slaughtered

we have slaughtered

you have slaughtered

they have slaughtered

Present perfect continuous

I have been slaughtering

you have been slaughtering

he/she/it has been slaughtering

we have been slaughtering

you have been slaughtering

they have been slaughtering

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I slaughtered

you slaughtered

he/she/it slaughtered

we slaughtered

you slaughtered

they slaughtered

Past continuous

I was slaughtering

you were slaughtering

he/she/it was slaughtering

we were slaughtering

you were slaughtering

they were slaughtering

Past perfect

I had slaughtered

you had slaughtered

he/she/it had slaughtered

we had slaughtered

you had slaughtered

they had slaughtered

Past perfect continuous

I had been slaughtering

you had been slaughtering

he/she/it had been slaughtering

we had been slaughtering

you had been slaughtering

they had been slaughtering

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will slaughter

you will slaughter

he/she/it will slaughter

we will slaughter

you will slaughter

they will slaughter

Future continuous

I will be slaughtering

you will be slaughtering

he/she/it will be slaughtering

we will be slaughtering

you will be slaughtering

they will be slaughtering

Future perfect

I will have slaughtered

you will have slaughtered

he/she/it will have slaughtered

we will have slaughtered

you will have slaughtered

they will have slaughtered

Future perfect continuous

I will have been slaughtering

you will have been slaughtering

he/she/it will have been slaughtering

we will have been slaughtering

you will have been slaughtering

they will have been slaughtering

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would slaughter

you would slaughter

he/she/it would slaughter

we would slaughter

you would slaughter

they would slaughter

Conditional continuous

I would be slaughtering

you would be slaughtering

he/she/it would be slaughtering

we would be slaughtering

you would be slaughtering

they would be slaughtering

Conditional perfect

I would have slaughter

you would have slaughter

he/she/it would have slaughter

we would have slaughter

you would have slaughter

they would have slaughter

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been slaughtering

you would have been slaughtering

he/she/it would have been slaughtering

we would have been slaughtering

you would have been slaughtering

they would have been slaughtering

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you slaughter
we let´s slaughter
you slaughter

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to slaughter

Past participle

slaughtered

Present Participle

slaughtering

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «SLAUGHTER»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «slaughter» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of slaughter

annihilate · assassinate · blood bath · bloodshed · blow away · bump off · butcher · butchery · carnage · crush · defeat · destroy · dispatch · do in · execute · exterminate · extermination · hammer · holocaust · kill · killing · lick · liquidation · massacre · murder · overwhelm · rout · slay · slaying · stuff · tank · thrash · trounce · undo · vanquish

TRANSLATION OF SLAUGHTER

Find out the translation of slaughter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of slaughter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «slaughter» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 屠杀
• Translator English - Spanish: masacrar
• English: slaughter
• Translator English - Hindi: वध
• Translator English - Arabic: ذبح
• Translator English - Russian: бойня
• Translator English - Portuguese: abater
• Translator English - Bengali: বধ
• Translator English - French: massacrer
• Translator English - Malay: Penyembelihan
• Translator English - German: abschlachten
• Translator English - Japanese: 虐殺する
• Translator English - Korean: 도살당하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Nyembeleh
• Translator English - Vietnamese: giết mổ
• Translator English - Tamil: படுகொலை
• Translator English - Marathi: कत्तल
• Translator English - Turkish: katliam
• Translator English - Italian: massacrare
• Translator English - Polish: ubój
• Translator English - Ukrainian: бійня
• Translator English - Romanian: sacrificare
• Translator English - Greek: σφαγή
• Translator English - Afrikaans: slagting
• Translator English - Swedish: slakt
• Translator English - Norwegian: slakting

10 QUOTES WITH «SLAUGHTER»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word slaughter.

1

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them.

2

Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them. Until now they have refused to do battle with us. They are just going places. One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.

3

Gregg Allman

Stage fright is not a thing about 'Am I any good?' It's about 'Am I gonna be good tonight?' It's a right-now thing. It helps me. If I went out there thinkin', 'Eh, we'll go slaughter 'em,' I'm positive something would go seriously wrong.

4

Anacreon

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter.

5

Michael Aston

Let's not pretend that abortion isn't about the mass slaughter of innocents.

6

Henry Walter Bates

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents.

7

Antony Beevor

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

8

Chris Bohjalian

The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.

9

James Cromwell

The health of the planet is at stake, because the cruelty and the waste that accompanies the slaughter of billions of animals each year literally infects us all. We could consume healthy plant-based food produced at almost infinitely less cost. What does that say, really, about us and what we're doing... to animals and to ourselves?

10

Frans de Waal

When humans behave murderously, such as inflicting senseless slaughter of innocents in warfare, we like to blame it on some dark, 'animalistic' instinct.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SLAUGHTER»

Discover the use of slaughter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to slaughter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Blindsighted

The sleepy town of Heartsdale, Georgia, is jolted into panic when Sara Linton, paediatrician and medical examiner, finds Sibyl Adams dead in the local diner.

Karin Slaughter, 2011

A New World Order

This book presents the far-reaching argument that not only should we have a new world order but that we already do. Anne-Marie Slaughter asks us to completely rethink how we view the political world.

Anne-Marie Slaughter, 2009

Academic Capitalism: Politics, Policies, and the ...

To grasp the extent of changes taking place and to understand the forces of change, Academic Capitalism examines the current state of academic careers and institutions, with a particular focus on public research universities in the United ...

Sheila Slaughter, Larry L. Leslie, 1999

Faithless

A walk in the woods takes a sinister turn for police chief Jeffrey Tolliver and medical examiner Sara Linton when they stumble across the body of a young girl.

Karin Slaughter, 2011

Nagashino 1575: Slaughter at the Barricades

Bogen er forsynet med kort, plancher og beskrivelse af de deltagende hære. Se også ISBN:1841764809, War in Japan 1467-1615.

‎2000

Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in ...

. . . This book carries one along, often as if running with the refugees.”—Anne Serafin, Multicultural Review

Marie Beatrice Umutesi, 2004

Undone

As Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents Faith Mitchell and Will Trent try to connect two murders to a hit-and-run victim, Atlanta physician Sara Linton becomes more involved in the investigation--an investigation which soon culminates in ...

Karin Slaughter, 2009

Sea of Slaughter

Since its first publication some 20 years ago, this powerful work has served as both a warning to humanity and an inspiration for change.

Farley Mowat, 2004

Children of the Slaughter: Young People of the Holocaust

An addition to a well-researched series tells the stories of the youngest victims of the Holocaust, including Jews and other victims of the Nazis, as well as the Hitler Youth, themselves exploited by power-hungry adults.

Ted Gottfried, 2001

Like Lambs to the Slaughter

Johanna Michaelsen takes the concerned parent into the world of the innocent child by exploring and exposing the growing power of the occult in the lives of our children.

Johanna Michaelsen, 1989

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SLAUGHTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term slaughter is used in the context of the following news items.

Nepal temple bans mass animal slaughter at festival

A butcher prepares to slaughter a buffalo with his knife during a mass sacrifice ceremony at Gadhimai temple in Bariyapur, Nepal, in 2009. Photograph: Gemunu ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»

Why ban only on slaughter of cows and bulls? HC asks Maharashtra …

If it was a ban on cattle slaughter yesterday, tomorrow it could encompass the entire animal kingdom. That's what the Maharashtra government seems to be ... «Hindustan Times, Apr 15»

Indian State Bans The Slaughter, Sale And Consumption Of Beef

Eating a steak dinner in Mumbai nowadays could land you in prison for up to five years and cost you more than $150 in fines. Indian President Pranab ... «NPR, Mar 15»

Halal slaughter: Outcry after undercover film exposes brutality of …

Ministers are under pressure to respond to growing public discontent about religious slaughter after an undercover investigation exposed the horrific ... «The Independent, Feb 15»

Yellowstone transferring bison for slaughter

BILLINGS, Mont. -- Yellowstone National Park has begun shipping wild bison for slaughter as part of a plan to reduce the park's population by as many as 900 ... «San Jose Mercury News, Jan 15»

Polish ban on kosher slaughter of animals is overturned

A Polish court has ruled that a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals for the needs of the Jewish community is unconstitutional. The Jewish community had ... «BBC News, Dec 14»

Assini-Slaughter race too close to call

If Democrats went into Election Day anxious about any local race, it certainly wasn't Louise Slaughter's bid for a 15th term in Congress. In the end, it was likely ... «Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, Nov 14»

What exactly does the halal method of animal slaughter involve?

The Arabic word halal means permissible, and the rules of slaughter are based on Islamic law. The animal has to be alive and healthy, a Muslim has to perform ... «The Guardian, May 14»

Yellowstone Park Considers Slaughtering Bison By The Hundreds

Feb 11 (Reuters) - Yellowstone National Park managers are considering a plan that would ship hundreds of bison to slaughter if large numbers of the nation's ... «Huffington Post, Feb 14»

Horse Slaughter Ban Reinstated Under New Federal Budget

When a federal budget passed in late 2011 removed the restriction on federal inspections of horse meat, the debate over horse slaughter picked up steam. «HorseChannel.com, Jan 14»