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slaught

slaught noun: killing; slaughter.

Noun

slaught (plural slaughts)

  1. (obsolete) Killing; slaughter.

slaught meaning in Bengali

slaught in Bengali

slaught, slaughter, slaughtering
জবাই jobai

Forms of slaught

pluralslaughts

Origin of slaught

From Middle English slaught, slagt, slaȝt, from Old English sliht, 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 *slahtō, *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.

Words formed from slaught

Questions about slaught

What does slaught mean?
Slaught means killing; slaughter.
What is slaught in Bengali?
Slaught in Bengali is জবাই (jobai). See Slaught meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is slaught?
Slaught is a noun.
What is the plural of slaught?
The plural of slaught is slaughts.

Words near slaught in the dictionary

  1. slaty-grey snake
  2. slaty-grey snakes
  3. slaty-legged crake
  4. slaugh
  5. Slaughs
  6. slaught
  7. slaught-beam
  8. slaught-beams
  9. slaughter
  10. slaughterable
  11. slaughterbot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: slaught (page history and authors); জবাই (Bengali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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