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slaughtering
 
Verb slaughter has 2 senses
  1. butcher, slaughter - kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
    --1 is one way to kill
    Derived forms: noun slaughter1, noun slaughterer1
    Sample sentences:
    Somebody ----s something
    Somebody ----s somebody
  2. massacre, slaughter, mow down - kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
    --2 is one way to kill
    Derived form: noun slaughter3
    Sample sentence:
    They want to slaughter the prisoners
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