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| blood |
murder or slaughter; bloodshed. [1/7 definitions] |
| bloodbath |
a brutal and indiscriminate slaughter of many people or a whole population; massacre. [1/2 definitions] |
| butchery |
brutal and senseless killing; slaughter. [1/3 definitions] |
| carnage |
the mass killing of people; slaughter. |
| cull |
to slaughter (an animal) because of weakness, disease, or inferiority in comparison with others of a group. [1/5 definitions] |
| depopulate |
to eliminate or decrease vastly the number of people in (a place), as by eviction, disease, or slaughter. |
| Esther |
according to the Old Testament, the Jewish wife of a Persian king who saved her people from slaughter. [1/2 definitions] |
| fatling |
a young domestic animal such as a calf or lamb, fattened for slaughter. |
| fatten |
to feed (animals) for slaughter. [1/4 definitions] |
| hecatomb |
any great slaughter. [1/2 definitions] |
| holocaust |
(cap.) the systematic rounding up and slaughter of Jews and members of other groups by Nazis during World War II (preceded by "the"). [1/3 definitions] |
| pogrom |
a systematic persecution or slaughter of an ethnic or religious group, esp. of Jews. |
| poleax |
a combined hammer and ax used to slaughter cattle. [2/3 definitions] |
| preslaughter |
combined form of slaughter. |
| tankage |
a slaughter house's waste materials after the fat has been processed in tanks, used for feed or fertilizer. [1/2 definitions] |
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