• Finnish: teurastaa, lahdata
• German: abschlachten
• Nahuatl: mictia
• Sumerian:
• Swedish: slakta

Slaughter may refer to:

Animals

• Slaughter (livestock), the method of killing animals to eat them
• Slaughterhouse, abattoir

People

• Anne-Marie Slaughter, Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
• Enos Slaughter, Hall of Fame baseball player
• Frank G. Slaughter
• Gabriel Slaughter, American Governor
• Karin Slaughter, writer
• Louise Slaughter, Congresswoman from New York
• Mark Slaughter, lead singer of Slaughter (band)
• Nugent Slaughter
• Sergeant Slaughter, pro wrestler
• Walter Slaughter, composer

Places

• Lower Slaughter, in Gloucestershire, England
• Upper Slaughter, also in Gloucestershire
• Slaughter, Louisiana, United States

Works of art

• Slaughter, a 1972 film starring Jim Brown and Rip Torn
• "Slaughter", Billy Preston song used as the theme to the film of the same name
• Slaughterhouse-Five, a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut

Bands

• Slaughter (band) is an American hard rock band.
• Slaughter (Canadian band) is a Canadian death metal band.
• Slaughter & the Dogs is a British punk band.

Other

• Slaughter and May is a City of London law firm.

annihilate, annihilation, assault, attack, bane, barbarize, batter, battering, blood, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, blue ruin, braining, breakup, brutalize, burn, butcher, butchering, butchery, carnage, carry on, commit carnage, commit genocide, commit mass murder, consumption, cut off, cut short, damnation, dealing death, decimate, decimation, depopulate, depredation, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destroy, destruction, destruction of life, devastation, disintegration, disorderliness, disorganization, dispatch, dispose of, disruption, dissolution, do away with, end, euthanasia, execution, exterminate, extermination, finish, finish off, flow of blood, forcible seizure, get rid of, go on, gore, hammer, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, lay waste, laying waste, loot, looting, maim, make away with, mangle, martyrdom, martyrization, massacre, maul, mercy killing, mug, murder, murder wholesale, mutilate, nip, obstreperousness, occision, onslaught, perdition, pillage, pillaging, poisoning, put paid to, rage, ramp, rampage, rant, rape, ravage, rave, riot, rioting, ritual killing, ritual murder, roar, ruin, ruination, sack, sacking, sacrifice, savage, shambles, shooting, slaughtering, slay, slay en masse, slaying, sow chaos, sowing with salt, spoliation, stick, stoning, storm, take off, taking of life, tear, tear around, terrorize, to, torture, total, undoing, unruliness, vandalism, vandalize, violate, violation, waste, wipe out, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck