slaughter
/ˈslɔtɚ/ verbe C2En français : abattre, massacrer, faire une tuerie, faire un carnage
- To butcher animals, generally for food.
- To massacre people in large numbers.
- To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner.
He/she/it slaughters · Prétérit slaughtered · Participe passé slaughtered · Forme en -ing slaughtering
Formes du verbe
- Forme de base
- slaughter
- He/she/it
- slaughters
- Prétérit
- slaughtered
- Participe passé
- slaughtered
- Forme en -ing
- slaughtering
Dans la bibliothèque
Suppose, for instance, the prisoner, as is more than probable, to have served under Napoleon—well, can you expect for an instant, that one accustomed, at the word of his commander, to rush fearlessly on the very bayonets of his foe, will scruple more to drive a stiletto into the heart of one he knows to be his personal enemy, than to slaughter his fellow-creatures, merely because bidden to do so by one he is bound to obey?
But one of them who was exceedingly old (for many a field had he plowed) thus spoke: “These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain.
“WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep.
The storm still continuing, he was obliged to slaughter his yoke oxen for food.
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