n 1: the killing of animals (as for food)
2: a sound defeat [syn: thrashing, walloping, debacle, drubbing, trouncing, whipping]
3: the savage and excessive killing of people [syn: carnage, butchery]
v 1: kill; used of animals, but also used for people to indicate
brutality [syn: butcher]
2: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus
massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: massacre, {mow
down}]