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unslaughtered

unslaughtered adjective: that has not yet been slaughtered.

Adjective

unslaughtered (not comparable)

  1. That has not yet been slaughtered.
    • After that furious battle, producing rivers of blood, had commenced, and when a remnant only of the brave samsaptakas, O Bharata, were left unslaughtered, Dhrishtadyumna, O monarch, with all the kings (on the Pandava side) and those mighty car-warriors--the Pandavas themselves, all rushed against...1883-1896, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3
    • We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin
  2. Derived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.

Origin of unslaughtered

From un- + slaughtered.

Questions about unslaughtered

What does unslaughtered mean?
Unslaughtered means that has not yet been slaughtered.
What part of speech is unslaughtered?
Unslaughtered is an adjective.

Words near unslaughtered in the dictionary

  1. unslated
  2. unslates
  3. unslating
  4. unslatted
  5. unslaughterable
  6. unslaughtered
  7. unslave
  8. unslaved
  9. unslavelike
  10. unslaves
  11. unslaving

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