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slaughter
noun as in killing
Example Sentences
On Wall Street, the arrival of Thanksgiving means it’s time for tax-loss harvesting, the wholesale slaughtering of the market’s worst-performing stocks.
The Lexington, Neb., plant employs roughly 3,000 people and can slaughter almost 5,000 cattle a day, according to industry estimates.
The anticlericalism of the left, with its burning of churches and slaughter of priests, resulted in some of the worst atrocities of the war.
Because ranchers faced feed costs that consumed the value of their livestock, they sold off their herds or accelerated the slaughter of cows and heifers, creating a temporary surplus that compromised future supply.
Uttar Pradesh is among the 20 states with strict laws banning cow slaughter and the sale and consumption of beef.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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