Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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slaughter | Yes | No | Yes | No |
execution | Yes | No | No | No |
slaughter (noun) | execution (noun) |
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the killing of animals (as for food) | putting a condemned person to death |
the savage and excessive killing of many people | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
a sound defeat | the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it |
the act of accomplishing some aim or executing some order | |
a routine court order that attempts to enforce the judgment that has been granted to a plaintiff by authorizing a sheriff to carry it out | |
(law) the completion of a legal instrument (such as a contract or deed) by signing it (and perhaps sealing and delivering it) so that it becomes legally binding and enforceable | |
(computer science) the process of carrying out an instruction by a computer |
slaughter (verb) | execution (verb) |
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kill a large number of people indiscriminately | |
kill (animals) usually for food consumption |