Slaughtered
[slɔ:təd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Slaughter
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Examples
- They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fall back; these misguided men shall not be slaughtered, while I am your general. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He slaughtered the people, laid waste their soil, and razed their cities to the ground. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Beef is slaughtered and cleansed very much in the same manner as the pork described in The Story in a Sausage. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The slaughtered bull is dragged away, and another is let out from the stall. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- An animal thus characterized has been slaughtered, but the breeder has gone with confidence to the same stock and has succeeded. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- He remembered his oath, and slaughtered the hapless Knight of Chatillon with his own hand. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- When the slaughtered bull and horse were dragged out, a fresh bull was turned into the ring. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The river was dyed, he says, with the blood of the slaughtered for two hundred yards. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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