slaughtering

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slaughtering

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of slaughter

noun slaughterings

  1. An act of slaughter; a killing. Towards the end of each trial (approximately July), when the Hock had been markedly depleted by mortalities and the successive group slaughterings, the remaining animals were confined to one paddock.

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Closest in meaning: butchery, butcher, whipping, thrashing, drubbing, mow down, massacre, carnage, walloping, debacle, trouncing, slaying, massacring, cull, culling, beheading

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@misc{slaughtering_2026,
  title = {slaughtering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/slaughtering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}