slaughter
noun
the killing or butchering of cattle, sheep, etc., especially for food.
slaughterer
-
a word derived from
slaughter.
Example Sentences
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Chun Woo-won, 27, said military strongman Chun Doo-hwan was a "sinner and slaughterer".
From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2023
Jordan Monkarsh is the son of a Jewish butcher, who fled Poland in the 1930s — and who himself was the son of a ritual slaughterer in the old country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2019
“They go from being a slaughterer of mice to a couch potato,” says Eva Maria-Geigl, an evolutionary geneticist who oversaw the study with molecular biologist Thierry Grange, both at the Jacques Monod Institute in Paris.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 19, 2017
His grandfather, Marcus Landau, was a “boot and shoe manufacturer, kosher slaughterer, grocer, scholar, mystic, mathematician and inventor” who fathered 17 children.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 30, 2015
The whimsical fate that seems to play with the destinies of the wild kindreds had chosen to let him save one flock from the slaughterer, and expiate his blameless treason.
From The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
