slaughter は【虐殺する,完全に打ちのめす】を意味する動詞(vt)です. あるいは【虐殺,屠殺】という名詞になります.
古期英語: slean = to slay(殺す)
同系語には
| slay | 殺す |
| onslaught | 猛攻撃,強襲 |
| sledge | 大槌で打つ,大打撃を加える |
| sly | ずるい,悪賢い |
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.
-- George Washington, First President of the USA
To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
-- Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Roman Historian
A bill was introduced in Congress to prohibit the slaughter of animals in residential areas.
居住区域での動物の虐殺を禁じる法律が議会に提出された.