Slaughter
noun
- 1.
- (1. The killing of animals for food. 2. The killing of a large number of people; a massacre: "I could not give my name to aid the slaughter in this war, fought on both sides for grossly material ends") slaughter of animals ការសម្លាប់ senseless slaughter ការកាប់សម្លាប់
Example: The slaughter of innocent civilians. - 2.
- (បច្ចេកទេស) ការសម្លាប់រង្គាល, ការចាញ់ល្បែង
verb — past tense: slaughtered ; past participle: slaughtered ; present participle: slaughtering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) (the killing of animals for food, the ruthless killing of a great number of people or animals, a massacre) សម្លាប់រង្គាល slaughter cattle ស្លាប់ slaughter innocent people កាប់ស្លាប់
Example: Thousands slaughtered by the invading army.
ENGLISH MEANING
noun
- 1.
- The act of killing.
- 2.
- The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage.
- 3.
- The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market.
verb — past tense: slaughtered ; past participle: slaughtered ; present participle: slaughtering ;
- 1.
- (TRANSITIVE) To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
- 2.
- (TRANSITIVE) To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
- 1.
- bloodshed, butchery, carnage, massacre, murder, pogrom, slaying
- 2.
- assassinate, butcher, devastate, execute, kill, massacre, murder, slay
- 1.
- animate, protect, resuscitate, save, vivify