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were slaughtering
noun
The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
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These calls came as al-Qa'ida bombs were slaughtering people in Shia neighbourhoods in Iraq.
Already, farmers were slaughtering their livestock because the government had proclaimed maize a strategic resource and confiscated animal-feed reserves.
"The Kurds will know you better than us," Lieutenant Jabber said, "because you were slaughtering their people".
"If people actually believed that coalition forces were slaughtering civilians," he said, "it could be real dangerous.
They were slaughtering BSE cattle during rehearsals – Juliet's dying on stage, and these horrible bellows are coming from out back".
The American strikes began, and an urgent call came 20 minutes later, in which the Russians notified the Americans in Qatar that they were slaughtering Syrian troops.
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His legions were slaughtered.
They were slaughtered with machetes.
Some 50 locals were slaughtered.
Thirteen million birds were slaughtered.
At least 22 others were slaughtered.
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