slaughtering
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slaughtering
verb
- present participle and gerund of slaughter
noun slaughterings
- 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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