Definition of "slaughtering" [slaughtering]

• Present participle of slaughter. (verb)

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• "In one of those cases, a Tacoma man named Jesse Macbeth was embraced by peace activists eager to discredit the Iraq war after he claimed to have joined other Army Rangers in slaughtering hundreds of unarmed civilians in"
• "The regimes of Idi Amin in the 1970s and Milton Obote in the early 1980s were characterized by the slaughtering of suspected enemies and economic upheaval."
• "The regimes of Mr. Amin in the 1970s and Milton Obote in the early 1980s were characterized by the slaughtering of suspected enemies and economic upheaval."