单词 | slaughterous |
释义 | slaughterous (once / 193760 pages) adj WORD FAMILY slaughterous: slaughterously+/slaughter: slaughtered, slaughterer, slaughtering, slaughterous, slaughters/slaughterer: slaughterers USAGE EXAMPLES“They are braver than the silly roach, and not quite so slaughterous as the pike are.” T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958) Again, his exclamation of ‘blood, blood, blood!’ is direful and slaughterous to the deepest degree; the very words appear stained and gory. Colvin, Sidney, Life of John Keats—His Life and Poe...(2011) As our men, on the other hand, were no less determined to take it, the contest became furious and slaughterous. Dunaway, Wayland Fuller, Reminiscences of a Rebel(2010) adj accompanied by bloodshed Syn butcherly, gory, sanguinary, sanguineous bloody having or covered with or accompanied by blood |
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