slaughter
Significado
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- The killing of animals, generally for food.
- A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- A mass destruction of non-living things.
- A rout or decisive defeat.
- A group of iguanas.
Frecuencia
Guionizado como
slaugh‧ter
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/ˈslɔːtə/
Etimoloxía
From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtrą, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. Equivalent to slay + -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten, Finnish lahdata (all “to slaughter”).
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