animal for slaughter

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• slaughter — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ indiscriminate, mass, wholesale ▪ the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians ▪ brutal, senseless, terrible …   Collocations dictionary

• animal — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dead, live, living ▪ the export of live animals for slaughter ▪ cold blooded, warm blooded ▪ higher …   Collocations dictionary

• slaughter — slaugh|ter1 [ˈslo:tə US ˈslo:tər] v [T] 1.) to kill an animal, especially for its meat 2.) to kill a lot of people in a cruel or violent way = ↑butcher ▪ Hundreds of innocent civilians had been slaughtered by government troops. see usage note… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• slaughter — 1 verb (T) 1 to kill large numbers of people in a cruel or violent way: Hundreds of innocent civilians were slaughtered. see kill 1 2 to kill an animal for food 3 informal to defeat an opponent by a large number of points: We got slaughtered 110… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• Horse slaughter — is the practice of slaughtering horses for meat. These animals come from mainly from auctions, where they re sold by private sellers and breeders. Often horses are sent to auction and sold to slaughter without the owner s knowledge or consent by… …   Wikipedia

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