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Meanings of slaughterous in English

Accompanied by bloodshed.

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Usage of slaughterous in English
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We will trample on you and your slaughterous regime, they shouted.
The Guardian
2
The Spaniards fought like heroes, day after slaughterous day.
Flag and Fleet: How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas
3
Conquests, triumphs, and slaughterous glory are not very nice till they have ceased to drip.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
4
One of its former members a Prime Minister, a dictator, under a king installed by its slaughterous coup.
Terrorists and Freedom Fighters
5
One after another, fifty slaves fell beneath the slaughterous knife, until the river-bed was a very cataract of blood.
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
6
But war then was more the rough play of boisterous children than the slaughterous, purely destructive thing that modern men have made it.
The World Decision
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Slaughterous and indiscriminate directions
Cranford
8
'With slaughterous sons of thunder rolled the flood'-
Alfred Tennyson
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Slaughterous through the time