Slaughter vs Assassination - What's the difference?
slaughter | assassination |
(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
* Milton
A rout or decisive defeat.
To butcher animals, generally for food
To massacre people in large numbers
To kill in a particularly brutal manner
killing or murder for political reasons
As a proper noun slaughter
is .As a noun assassination is
killing or murder for political reasons.slaughter
English
(wikipedia slaughter)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-)- on war and mutual slaughter bent
Derived terms
* kosher slaughter * lamb to the slaughter/like a lamb to the slaughter/come like a lamb to the slaughter * manslaughter * ritual slaughter * slaughterer * slaughterhouse * slaughterman * slaughterousVerb
(en verb)Anagrams
* English transitive verbsassassination
English
(wikipedia assassination)Noun
(en noun)- The assassination of the king occurred at night.