How to pronounce“slaughter”in English
among the present-day American population.
Slaughter on a scale like this scythed through families, shattered communities, but also shaped nations and scarred imaginations for centuries to come.
However, I think we should be cautious about assuming that civil war is an inevitable, even necessary part, of our makeup.
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Definitions of “slaughter”
The killing of animals, generally for food.
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
“1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416, For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.”
To butcher animals, generally for food.
To massacre people in large numbers.
“Hurriedly he snatched up others, one or two at a time, until he had slaughtered thirty of Hrothgar's doughtiest earls.”
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