saat3 luk6殺戮杀戮
Jyutpingsaat3 luk6
Yalesaat luhk
Definition
Slaughter; large-scale killing.
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How it's used
Refers to large-scale, violent, and often indiscriminate killing, carrying a heavy and formal tone. It is rarely used in casual daily conversation and appears more frequently in news reports, historical accounts, or literary contexts describing war or mass tragedy.
Examples
This war caused a lot of innocent slaughter.
Why do humans always like to engage in slaughter?
Related words
Common mistake
Avoid using this word to describe the killing of a single person or small-scale incidents, as it implies a massive, systematic, or catastrophic scale of death.
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