slaughter vs battue

slaughter and battue both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slaughter	Yes	No	Yes	No
battue	Yes	No	No	No

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

Other hyponyms of slaughter include bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed.

slaughter (noun)	battue (noun)
the killing of animals (as for food)	a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter
the savage and excessive killing of many people	indiscriminate slaughter
a sound defeat

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