Inflicting or involving brutal slaughter or injury; barbarous; bloody; (of a blow or stroke) rough, violent; hacking.

That butchers (butcher, v. 1a); that kills brutally or indiscriminately.

Inflicting or involving brutal slaughter or injury; murderous; barbarous; bloody.

That kills, esp. indiscriminately and in numbers.

That slaughters; killing, slaying.

Of or relating to a massacre; murderous. Also in extended use.

Brutal; barbarous; bloody; = butcherly, adj.

Belonging to an executioner, or to a butcher; butcherly.

Of conflict, esp. warfare. Characterized by great loss of life; deadly, very destructive, devastating. Obsolete.

That commits murder; murderous; involving or suggestive of murder. Also figurative.

Of the executioner; butcherly.

Of, pertaining to, or involving genocide.