slaughter
Senso (Inglese)
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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.
sinonimi
cut throat
act of killing
cut the throat of
cut throat of
quiten
shoot dead
slaughter house
break apart
make dirty
shed blood
skin an animal
break the neck
blood shedding
slay shoot
for slaughter
blood-letting
effusion of blood
Frequenza
Con il trattino come
slaugh‧ter
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈslɔːtə/
Etimologia (Inglese)
In summary
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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