The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slaughterous
Slaughterous \Slaugh"ter*ous\, a.
Destructive; murderous.
--Shak.
--M. Arnold. --
Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
Wiktionary
slaughterous
a. prone to slaughtering
WordNet
slaughterous
adj. accompanied by bloodshed; "this bitter and sanguinary war" [syn: gory, sanguinary, sanguineous, butcherly]
Usage examples of "slaughterous".
Those ships were the brute killers of the deep, the slab-sided gun batteries that could hurl a slaughterous weight of metal, but Chase, without showing any alarm at the prospect, told Sharpe there was a famous Spanish four-decker, the largest ship in the world, that carried over a hundred and thirty guns.
It was also a world of mystery and danger, guarded by a sinister array of weapons, varying from the slaughterous teeth of the shark to the deadly venom of the innocent looking Zebra fish.