slaughtered

verb

past tense of slaughter
as in massacred
to kill on a large scale modern poultry farms slaughter a vast number of chickens every day

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Recent Examples of slaughtered Translation - go straight for 2 miles on the general who slaughtered hundreds of Black soldiers who were trying to surrender. — Terry Gross, NPR, 14 Aug. 2026 This was painting a bright red bullseye on the hog that was soon to be slaughtered. — Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026 Although scarce documentation has left a wide range of estimates, as many as 2 million people are said to have been slaughtered in communal massacres during this exodus. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Per the title, Aang is the last surviving airbender after his pacifist brethren were slaughtered by a belligerent, expansionist Fire Nation. — Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2026 Deputies unlawfully confiscated Cedar, who was then slaughtered before his family ever had the chance to challenge the seizure in court. — Vanessa Shakib, Oc Register, 23 July 2026 That year, the number of possible points had changed from two hundred to four hundred, and the newspapers reported that this test had slaughtered hordes of top students. — Min Jin Lee, New Yorker, 19 July 2026 The Trojans were the ones who foolishly dragged the horse inside their own city, went to sleep, and then got slaughtered when the Greek soldiers climbed out and opened the gates. — Amber Harding Outkick, FOXNews.com, 19 July 2026 The Greeks waited inside, and when the Trojan horse was brought inside the city walls, Odysseus and the Greeks snuck out, opened the gates of the city to the waiting Greek army, and slaughtered the Trojans to win the war. — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 17 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for slaughtered
  1. massacred
  2. murdered
  3. assassinated
Verb
  • In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 July 2026
  • At least 100,000 Poles were massacred by the UPA.
    — Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 20 June 2026
Definition of massacred
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  • Itzkowitz is the eldest son of Albert Itzkowitz, who was brutally murdered in broad daylight at Kissena Park in Queens on the afternoon of May 18.
    — Simcha Itzkowitz, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Security footage showed the van leaving the Home Depot parking lot shortly before Fandrich was murdered.
    — Lauren Clark, CBS News, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of murdered
Verb
  • Someone had apparently vandalized Altman's Wikipedia page, claiming he was assassinated in Seattle.
    — Emily Forlini, Fortune, 13 Aug. 2026
  • But when The Satanic Verses was published in 1988, the novel was declared by some as blasphemous, and then-Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa for Rushdie to be assassinated, leading the author to go into hiding until 1998.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of assassinated

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