different between assassinate vs slaughter

English

Etymology

From assassin +? -ate, after Middle French assassiner.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??sas?ne?t/

Verb

assassinate (third-person singular simple present assassinates, present participle assassinating, simple past and past participle assassinated)

1. To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. [from 17th c.]
2. (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
   • 1682, John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, The Duke of Guise

     Your rhymes assassinate our fame.

Related terms

• assassin
• assassination
• royal assassin

Translations

Noun

assassinate (plural assassinates)

1. (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
2. (obsolete) An assassin.

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on Assassins
• murder
• regicide

Italian

Verb

assassinate

1. second-person plural present indicative of assassinare
2. second-person plural imperative of assassinare
3. feminine plural of assassinato

English

Alternative forms

• slaughtre (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later slátr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtr?. Equivalent to slay +? -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten (both “to slaughter”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sl??t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sl?t?/
• (cot–caught merger) IPA^(key): /?sl?t?/
• Hyphenation: slaugh?ter
• Rhymes: -??t?(?)
• Homophone: slotter (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Noun

slaughter (countable and uncountable, plural slaughters)

1. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.
2. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
   • 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,

     For ?in, on war and mutual ?laughter bent.
3. A rout or decisive defeat.
4. A group of iguanas.

   Synonym: mess

Hyponyms

• (a massacre): manslaughter

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Verb

slaughter (third-person singular simple present slaughters, present participle slaughtering, simple past and past participle slaughtered)

1. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food
2. (transitive, intransitive) To massacre people in large numbers
3. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner

Translations

Anagrams

• Laughters, laughster, laughters, laughtres, lethargus, slaughtre