slaughter

Senso (English)

Noun

1. The killing of animals, generally for food.
2. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
3. A mass destruction of non-living things.
4. A rout or decisive defeat.
5. A group of iguanas.

Verb

1. To butcher animals, generally for food.
2. To massacre people in large numbers.
3. To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.

Synonyms

killing

massacre

kill

🔪🩸👤

murder

butcher

carnage

butchery

slay

assassinate

slaying

bloodshed

destruction

assassination

cut throat

homicide

cut

mass murder

beat

act of killing

bloodbath

cut up

cut the throat of

destroy

defeat

flay

shoot

walloping

mow down

slit

whipping

slice

debacle

execute

demolish

exterminate

extermination

behead

sacrifice

saw

🪚

cut throat of

skin

drubbing

cut down

strangle

thrashing

kill off

electrocute

liquidate

hit

trouncing

operate

overcome

overthrow

pass through

pull down

put down

put to death

quiet

quiten

rout

scrag

shambles

shoot dead

slaughter house

slaughtering

slew

soothe

sound

🔉

spew

still

strangulate

suffocate

surmount

tackle

take down

throttle

throw over

tranquilize

trim

use up

vanquish

weaken

weed

whitewash

win over

worship

break apart

make dirty

shed blood

skin an animal

embayment

animals

death

💀

waste

break the neck

blood shedding

redrum

slay shoot

abase

for slaughter

annihilate

annihilation

appease

assuage

battle

battue

bay

beating

bight

blood

🩸

blood-letting

breakdown

bump off

calm

chop

cover

cut off

depress

despatch

dig up

discourage

dishearten

dispatch

down

dress

👗

drop

effusion of blood

eliminate

enervate

enfeeble

excavate

execution

exhaust

finish off

foul play

garotte

garrotte

go through

grub

gulf

hack

havoc

holocaust

humiliate

immolation

inlet

knock off

mortify

murdering

Con il trattino come

slaugh‧ter

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈslɔːtə/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: slaughter

Cognate with olandese: slachten

Cognate with tedesco: schlachten

Cognate with finlandese: lahdata

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”).