Slaughtering

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun

1
An act of slaughter; a killing.
"Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock."

Verb

1
present participle and gerund of slaughter form-of, gerund, participle, present

Synonyms

massacre shambles slaughter

Example

"Russians are able to name as brothers the very people whose country they're devastating and who they are slaughtering."

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