The difference between Murder and Slaughter
When used as nouns, murder means an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human, whereas slaughter means the killing of animals, generally for food.
When used as verbs, murder means to deliberately kill (a person or persons), whereas slaughter means to butcher animals, generally for food.
check bellow for the other definitions of Murder and Slaughter
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Murder as a noun (countable):
An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
Examples:
"There have been ten unsolved murders this year alone."
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Murder as a noun (uncountable):
The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
Examples:
"The defendant was charged with murder."
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Murder as a noun (uncountable, legal, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule):
The commission of an act which abets the commission of a crime the commission of which causes the death of a human.
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Murder as a noun (uncountable, used as a predicative noun):
Something terrible to endure.
Examples:
"This headache is murder."
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Murder as a noun (countable, collective):
A group of crows;
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Murder as a verb:
To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
Examples:
"The woman found dead in her kitchen was murdered by her husband."
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Murder as a verb (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):
To defeat decisively.
Examples:
"Our team is going to murder them."
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Murder as a verb:
To botch or mangle.
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Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, hyperbolic):
To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one's anger at somebody).
Examples:
"He's torn my best shirt. When I see him, I'll murder him!"
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Murder as a verb (figuratively, colloquial, British):
to devour, ravish.
Examples:
"I could murder a [[hamburger]] right now."
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Slaughter as a noun (uncountable):
The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
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Slaughter as a noun:
A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
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Slaughter as a noun:
A rout or decisive defeat.
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Slaughter as a verb (transitive):
To butcher animals, generally for food
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Slaughter as a verb (transitive, intransitive):
To massacre people in large numbers
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Slaughter as a verb (transitive):
To kill in a particularly brutal manner