Word

slaughter, v.
(slaughtered, slaughtering, slaughters)
freq. cnt. 5

kill (animals) usually for food consumption
<verb.contact> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 1

butcher slaughter

sample sentences

"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

slaughter slaughterer

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

butchery butchery butchery butcher butcher

semantic pointers

entailment

hypernym

hyponym

kill a large number of people indiscriminately
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1

massacre mow down slaughter

sample sentences

"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

verb frames

Somebody ----s somebody
They want to %s the prisoners

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym