A ruthless killing of a great number of people.
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Examples for "slaughter"
Examples for "slaughter"
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Allowing horse slaughter will benefit horse owners throughout the state, he said.
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We will continue to fight and slaughter our enemies on the water!
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A moment later he was inside the house, and the slaughter began.
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But Open Cages and local campaign groups insist the slaughter is continuing.
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Federally regulated slaughter plants are not allowed to operate without inspectors present.
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Either way, what followed was the greatest massacre in South African history.
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It said the massacre was essential for China's future order and prosperity.
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Justice sources said the operation was intended to prevent a repeat massacre.
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A second New Zealand family is in mourning after the Norwegian massacre.
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Three months earlier the Houla massacre was also called a turning point.
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Government agents and police, vastly outgunned, ultimately retreated rather than risk bloodshed.
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In time, this power afforded to gangsters would result in widespread bloodshed.
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The military said it had to intervene to prevent more serious bloodshed.
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They used modern tactics of propaganda and bloodshed that are familiar today.
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As casualties mount, concern intensifies that the bloodshed could continue for months.
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Iraq wants to leave behind years of sectarian carnage, war and mayhem.
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The political carnage of last Thursday was, however, not difficult to forecast.
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The carnage also revealed a dangerous lack of transparency in the market.
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Nobody looking for non-stop action and carnage is likely to feel shortchanged.
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I saw the education and health ministers bleeding heavily in the carnage.
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Russian generals say their peacekeepers prevent an ethnic bloodbath in the region.
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Cricket South Africa has created a bloodbath over the past few days.
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Six words sum up boxing bloodbath Tim Tszyu is the real deal.
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The United Nations says it fears for a bloodbath in the north.
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If the Mormons had chosen violence, it would have been a bloodbath.
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You're neither of you up to the blood bath at the Cornucopia.
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It became a bit of a blood bath at the end.
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It was known as the blood bath and that really describes it as such.
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You still after the coke that walked out of that blood bath in the harbor?
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But if you're going to turn this into a blood bath, you can forget about me.'
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As Ms Marlowe said, what happened in Lebanon recently was mass murder.
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The papers described it as the largest mass murder in US history.
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I may wish to avoid mass murder, but let's be honest .
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But apparently I've been committing mass murder each time I cook them.
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Retail killing and destruction was replaced by mass murder and wholesale annihilation.
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Of course, with the butchery, my hand is often tired these days.
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The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English.
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Somehow Jacket managed to be right in the middle of the butchery.
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An inhuman butchery of the children and some of the women followed.
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All the martyrs were now brought to the place of their butchery.
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I excused my absence as a continuation of my butchery journeyman education.
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The terrible butchery which is being prepared has not even a pretext.
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General Dyer did produce a 'moral effect' by an act of butchery.
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Nothing is so pleasing to these gods as the butchery of unbelievers.
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Every year the hunters are better supplied with better implements of butchery.
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This horrid butchery was not confined merely to the city of Paris.
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Within half an hour after it had begun, the butchery was over.
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After ninety minutes of butchery, the bravest socialist pilots had had enough.
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It was magnificent, but it was not war, it was sheer butchery.
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And a very fair speculation no doubt it is, this pedlar butchery.
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He and his horse moved together, a splendid engine of ruthless, butchery.
