slaughter
/ˈslɔtɚ/ sustantivo B2En español: matanza, escabechina, masacre, carnicería
- The killing of animals, generally for food.
- A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
- A rout or decisive defeat.
- A group of iguanas.
Plural slaughters
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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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