slaughteringn.
/ˈslɔːtərɪŋ/ The action of the verb (in various senses); (also) an instance of this.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun]
sleightc893
wal-slaught?a900
qualeeOE
deathOE
swordc1000
morthOE
slaughta1225
destroyingc1300
drepingc1300
martyrdomc1325
murderc1325
mortc1330
sleighterc1330
slaughter1338
iron and firea1387
murraina1387
manslaughtera1400
martyre?a1400
quella1425
occision?a1430
decease1513
destruction1526
slaughting1535
butchery?1536
butchering1572
massacrea1578
slaughterdom1592
slaughtering1597
carnage1600
massacring1600
slaughtery1604
internecion1610
decimationa1613
destroy1616
trucidation1623
stragea1632
sword-wrack1646
interemption1656
carnifice1657
panolethry1668
butcher work1808
bloodbath1814
populicide1824
man-slaughtering1851
battue1864
mass murder1917
genocide1944
overkill1957
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xlviii. 647 By treacheries, poisonings, slaughterings, and such like Scythian kindnesses.
1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης iv. 38 To turne his slashing at the Court Gate, to slaughtering in the Field.
1711 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 165 The slaughtering of a great number.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Cyclops in Posthumous Poems (1824) 346 Axes for Ætnean slaughterings.
1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 7 Since the opening of the public abattoir, all private slaughtering..is strictly prohibited.
Compounds
General attributive, as slaughtering-house, slaughtering stock, etc.
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1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. iii. 64 The estancias and slaughtering-houses.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 280 His slaughtering stock before the knife would pine.
1891 Month 72 18 Ice-houses, slaughtering-yards.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
slaughteringadj.
1.
a. That slaughters; killing, slaying.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective]
butcherly1528
butcherlike1555
butchering1574
butcherous1575
massacring1585
slaughtering?1592
massacrous1593
butchery1626
carnificial1632
internecine1642
murdering1667
carnificine1681
genocidal1948
?1592 Trag. Solyman & Perseda iii. i Inforce me sheath my slaughtering blade In the deare bowels of my countrimen.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 143 Hither hale that misbelieuing Moore, To be adiudge some dyrefull slaughtring death.
1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant x, in Poems (new ed.) 20 To..drive away the slaughtering pestilence.
1679 C. Ness Distinct Disc. Antichrist 211 Ministers have..ever been the sacrifices for slaughtering tyrants.
b. transferred or figurative. (Cf. killing adj.)
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmful or injurious
litherc893
scathefulc900
orneOE
teenfulOE
atterlichc1050
evilc1175
wicka1250
scathela1300
deringa1325
unkindc1330
harmfula1340
ill1340
wicked1340
shrewdc1380
noisomea1382
venomed1382
noyfulc1384
damageousc1386
infectivea1398
unwholesomea1400
annoying?c1400
mischievous1414
damnablec1420
contagiousc1430
mischievable?a1439
damagefulc1449
damageable1474
unhappy1474
nuisable1483
nocible1490
nuisible1490
nuisant1494
noxiousa1500
nocent?c1500
hurtful1526
sinistral1534
nocive1538
offendent1547
offensivea1548
dangerous1548
naughtya1555
dispendious1557
offensible1575
wrackful1578
baneful1579
hindersome1580
scandalizing1593
damnifiable1604
taking1608
toadish1611
illful1613
nocivousc1616
mischieving1621
nocuous1627
obnoxious1638
nocumentous1644
vicious1656
nocumental1657
abnoxious1680
dungeonable1691
offending1694
hurtsomea1699
nociferous1706
sinister1726
damnific1727
hazardous1748
slaughtering1811
damaging1856
damnous1870
lethal1942
1811 Sporting Mag. 38 184 Having thus far described the slaughtering rounds of this fight.
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 303/2 A little master, working, as he called it, ‘at a slaughtering pace’, for a warehouse.
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling viii. 263 The most slaughtering way of fishing for greyling is with the grasshopper.
2. Of prices: Of the nature of a sacrifice; lower than is profitable.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > low price or rate > [adjective] > very
bottom1561
giveaway1872
rock-bottom1873
slaughtering1898
1898 Daily News 29 Mar. 9/4 In the export yarn trade there is a turn for the worse in values, owing to sales at slaughtering prices from stock.
Derivatives
ˈslaughteringly adv.
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the world > life > death > killing > [adverb]
killingly1641
slaughteringly1836
1836 E. Howard Rattlin xxxvii They waxed..cuttingly polite, then slaughteringly sarcastic.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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