slaughter

[1]	butcher , kill , murder , slay , execute , exterminate , massacre , put to the sword , put to death , liquidate , destroy
[2]	defeat , butcher , beat , win (out) over , vanquish , overcome , overwhelm , smash , crush , thrash , destroy , rout , upset , trounce , (Colloq) clobber
[3]	massacre , mow down

[1]	butchery , butchering , (Rare) abattage
[2]	massacre , thrashing , walloping , killing , bloodshed , debacle , drubbing , blood bath , murder , trouncing , whipping , homicide , manslaughter , carnage , extermination , execution , liquidation , slaying , blood-letting , butchery , pogrom , genocide , mass murder/execution/extermination , sacrifice , hecatomb
[3]	massacre , mass murder , carnage , butchery