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9 letters · 13 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the killing of animals (as for food)
noun a sound defeat
noun the savage and excessive killing of many people
originFrom Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtrą, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. Equivalent to slay + -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten, Finnish lahdata (all “to slaughter”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
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