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 called his grandfather a "sinner and slaughterer" and said he was "sincerely sorry for not apologising any sooner".
From BBC ● Jun. 15, 2026
Instead, she said, a slaughterer told her the goat he killed at Macfarlane’s was black and white, not white and brown like Cedar.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 19, 2024
“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
When he saw what kind of a customer he had to deal with—a slaughterer who only wanted to pay the value of his victim—he disarmed his better-half, and they came to an understanding.
From Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
