wholesale killing
1killing — n 1. murder, slaying, manslaughter, thug gee, fatality, death, violent death, bloody or foul murder, murder most foul, foul play, assassination, shooting, strangling, strangulation, garrotting, poisoning; execution, capital punishment, judicial… …
2there are more ways of killing a cat than choking it with cream — See also the following two entries (there are more ways of killing a dog than choking it with butter, there are more ways of killing a dog than hanging it) and there is more than one way to skin a cat. 1839 S. SMITH John Smith’s Letters 91… …
3carnage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. massacre, slaughter; shambles, butchery. See killing. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. slaughter, massacre, slaying, butchery, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, butchering, manslaughter, gore,… …
4annihilation — n 1. butchery, carnage, slaughter, wholesale or general slaughter, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction, blood bath, decimation, liquidation, blotting or wiping out, genocide, pogrom,… …
5slaughter — n 1.(all of animals) killing, butchering, chopping, cutting, carving; trimming, slicing, dismembering, mincing; abattage. 2. murder, homicide, manslaughter, assassination, slaying, killing; bloodshed, bloodletting, butchery, death by violence,… …
6Watanabe Shōichi — nihongo| Watanabe Shōichi |渡部 昇一|Watanabe Shōichi; b. 15 September 1930, the oldest son of a prosperous merchant, in Shizuoka, Yamagata Prefecture is an English scholar and one of Japan’s foremost cultural critics. A graduate of Sophia University …
7massacre — n 1. carnage, slaughter, butchery; wholesale slaughter, random or indiscriminate slaughter, general slaughter, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass slaying, mass execution, mass destruction; blood bath, effusion of blood, fusillade …
8Francia — or Frankia, later also called the Frankish Empire ( la. imperium Francorum), Frankish Kingdom (Latin: regnum Francorum , Kingdom of the Franks ), Frankish Realm or occasionally Frankland, was the territory inhabited and ruled by the Franks from… …
9butchery — n 1. slaughterhouse, slaughterpen, abattoir, shambles, Obs. butcher row. 2. carnage, massacre, slaughter, wholesale killing, mass murder, mass homicide, mass execution, mass slaying, general slaughter, mass destruction, bloodbath, effusion of… …
10butchery — n. 1. Murder, slaughter, massacre. 2. Great slaughter, wholesale killing, carnage, enormous bloodshed …
