The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slaughter \Slaugh"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slaughtered; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaughtering.]
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To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle.
Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered.
--Shak. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
Wiktionary
n. An act of slaughter; a killing. vb. (present participle of slaughter English)
Usage examples of "slaughtering".
Naked warriors, daubed in blue clay, swarmed over their land, raping and slaughtering and burning, and howling with laughter all the while.
Coltaine held them in absolute trust, and the Seven Cities natives had proved themselves again and again with fanatic ferocityas if they had assumed a burden of shame and guilt and could only relieve it by slaughtering every one of their traitorous kin.
Aren, where it shall be hoarded uselessly until such time as Korbolo Dom breaches the gates, and so you end up paying him for the privilege of slaughtering you.
With this historic defensive success, after slaughtering two low-level bomber waves, Nagumo was riding high.
At length they grew tired of the noise and of slaughtering the Christians hi their thoughts.
This whole slaughtering fifth kigh thing, you being here in my body, has screwed up everything he thought he could be sure about in his entire life.
He said Vree could tell him what she wanted once that slaughtering parasite was out of her head.
They will sweep westward, razing cities and slaughtering whole nations.
Even their method of slaughtering the weakest members of their herds was so gentle that the word slaughter hardly applies: they merely exerted enough mental control over the animal to stop its heart.
Agamemnon, the leader of the Titans, had repaid that debt a thousand times over, slaughtering countless humans.
Bahnak had all his troops off slaughtering his fellow barbarians elsewhere.
Horse Stealer have been slaughtering one another over this or that, and not a step closer to ending it have we ever come.
He is reconciled with Agamemnon, and as soon as his mother brings him a splendid suit of armor, made by the smith-god Hephaestus, he returns to the battle, and after slaughtering many Trojans, meets and kills Hector.
You go back to him and declare my message: I will not think of arming for bloody war again, not till the son of wise King Priam, dazzling Hector batters all the way to the Myrmidon ships and shelters, slaughtering Argives, gutting the hulls with fire.
But, to Morris, they were as much a part of the problem as the Cossack butchers who would soon enough be slaughtering tens of thousands of Jews in the Ukraine.