slaughter
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the killing of animals (as for food)
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Parts & wholes
- butchering part holonym
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
Sense 2 verb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
- massacre derivation
- butchering derivation
- butchery derivation
- slaughterer derivation
- butcher derivation
- cut entails
Sense 3 noun
a sound defeat
Types & categories
- licking hypernym
Related & opposite
Sense 4 verb
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda
Types & categories
- kill hypernym
Related & opposite
- massacre derivation
Sense 5 noun
the savage and excessive killing of many people
Types & categories
- murder hypernym
- bloodbath hyponym
- Alamo instance hyponym
- Battle of Little Bighorn instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- massacre derivation
- slaughter derivation
- sanguinary derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 1 | part holonym | Parts & wholes | butchering |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | massacre |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | butchering |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | butchery |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughterer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | butcher |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | cut |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | chine |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | beat |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | worst |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | wallop |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | lick |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | licking |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | massacre |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | massacre |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | sanguinary |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | murder |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | bloodbath |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Alamo |
| 5 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Battle of Little Bighorn |