different between slaught vs slaughter

English

Etymology

From Middle English slaught, slagt, sla?t, from Old English slæht, sleaht, sleht, slieht (“a stroke, a striking, a flash of lightning, slaughter, murder, death by violence, the deadly stroke of disease, battle, what is to be killed, animals for slaughter”), from Proto-Germanic *slaht?, *slahtiz (“beating, hitting, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *slek- (“to beat, pound”).

Cognate with Dutch slacht (“slaughter”), German Schlacht (“killing, battle”), Swedish slakt (“slaughter”), Icelandic slátta (“slaughter”). Related to English slay.

Noun

slaught (plural slaughts)

1. Killing; slaughter.

Derived terms

• manslaught (whence manslaughter)
• onslaught

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

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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

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Anagrams

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