slaughter

nouns

the killing of animals (as for food)
slaughter
is a part of
the business of a butcher
butchering, butchery
is a type of (narrower)
the act of terminating a life
kill, killing, putting to death
a sound defeat
debacle, drubbing, slaughter, thrashing, trouncing, walloping, whipping
the savage and excessive killing of many people
butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter
is derived from
slaughterous

verbs

kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
butcher, slaughter
is derived from
slaughterer
kill a large number of people indiscriminately
"The Hutus massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda"
massacre, mow down, slaughter