Noun: slaughter
| Singular | slaughter |
| Plural | slaughters |
Sample Sentences
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1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,
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For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.
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[…] I ſee
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Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
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Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
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His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood. [1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, pages 1-2:]
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There was a massive slaughter of W.R. steam power at the conclusion of the summer timetable. In all, 169 locomotives were condemned. [1962 December, “Motive Power Miscellany: Western Region”, in Modern Railways, page 425:]
Nouns inflected like slaughter
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtrą, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. Equivalent to slay + -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten, Finnish lahdata (all “to slaughter”). See: Middle English Nouns '
slaughter', Old Norse Nouns '
*slahtr', Finnish Nouns '
lahdata'.
Verbs referencing "slaughter"
German Nouns
Schlacht, Gothic Nouns
𐍃𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐍃.