putting to death vs slaughter

slaughter vs putting to death

putting to death and slaughter both are nouns.

putting to death is not a verb while slaughter is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
putting to death	Yes	No	No	No
slaughter	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, slaughter is a hyponym of putting to death; that is, slaughter is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than putting to death:

putting to death: the act of terminating a life
slaughter: the killing of animals (as for food)

Other hyponyms of putting to death include coup de grace, deathblow, death, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, despatch, dispatch, fell, self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide, poisoning, asphyxiation, suffocation, ritual killing, sacrifice, electrocution, beheading, decapitation, genocide, race murder, racial extermination.

putting to death (noun)	slaughter (noun)
the act of terminating a life	the killing of animals (as for food)
	the savage and excessive killing of many people
	a sound defeat

putting to death (verb)	slaughter (verb)
	kill a large number of people indiscriminately
	kill (animals) usually for food consumption

Difference between putting to death and slaughter

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