matanza

matanza
f.
1 slaughter (masacre).
2 slaughtering (del cerdo). (peninsular Spanish)
3 killing, bloodbath, bloodshed, butchery.
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matanza
► nombre femenino
1 (gen) slaughter
2 (del cerdo) pig killing
3 (carne) pork products plural
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noun f.
slaughter
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SF
1) [en batalla] slaughter, killing; (Agr) slaughtering; (=temporada) slaughtering season; (fig) slaughter, massacre
2) Caribe (=matadero) slaughterhouse; And (=tienda) butcher's, butcher's shop; CAm (=mercado) meat market
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femenino (acción de matar) killing, slaughter; (de res, cerdo) slaughter
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= massacre, slaughter, slaughtering, killing, mass murder, bloodshed, carnage, butchery, mass killing, kill, slaying.
Ex. Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as massacres when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.
Ex. Attention has focussed on the marketing of dangerous substances, safety standards for the slaughter of meat and poultry, and control of dangerous cosmetics.
Ex. These programmes cover red meat slaughterhouses, ware potatoes, liquid milk processing, horticulture, cereals, fisheries, and pigmeat slaughtering and processing.
Ex. This article reports on the coverage by the New York Times of the killing of a hostage victim during a highjack.
Ex. Some authors concluded that mass murder was analogous to 'femicide'.
Ex. The author deals with the vexed issue of copyright passing from the bloodshed provoked by St. Columba's unauthorized copying of a neighbour's book of Psalms in the Sixth century, through the invention of royalties for glassblowers during the Renaissance to Microsoft's problems with free software.
Ex. This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.
Ex. They charge the West, which has chosen to look the other way, with complicity in the butchery.
Ex. By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
Ex. Early rise as your try and catch the predators after their nightly kill.
Ex. A mobster believed to be the head of an organized crime clan involved in the slaying of six people has been arrested this morning.
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* autor de una matanza = mass murderer.
* matanza indiscriminada = killing spree, shooting spree, shooting rampage.
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femenino (acción de matar) killing, slaughter; (de res, cerdo) slaughter
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= massacre, slaughter, slaughtering, killing, mass murder, bloodshed, carnage, butchery, mass killing, kill, slaying.

Ex: Encounters between indigenous and colonizing peoples are described as massacres when the indigenous people won and BATTLES when the colonists won.

Ex: Attention has focussed on the marketing of dangerous substances, safety standards for the slaughter of meat and poultry, and control of dangerous cosmetics.
Ex: These programmes cover red meat slaughterhouses, ware potatoes, liquid milk processing, horticulture, cereals, fisheries, and pigmeat slaughtering and processing.
Ex: This article reports on the coverage by the New York Times of the killing of a hostage victim during a highjack.
Ex: Some authors concluded that mass murder was analogous to 'femicide'.
Ex: The author deals with the vexed issue of copyright passing from the bloodshed provoked by St. Columba's unauthorized copying of a neighbour's book of Psalms in the Sixth century, through the invention of royalties for glassblowers during the Renaissance to Microsoft's problems with free software.
Ex: This new horror genre uses humor in the midst of violent gore & carnage.
Ex: They charge the West, which has chosen to look the other way, with complicity in the butchery.
Ex: By way of background, Mr. Pateman also denies that the Khmer Rouge committed mass killings in Cambodia.
Ex: Early rise as your try and catch the predators after their nightly kill.
Ex: A mobster believed to be the head of an organized crime clan involved in the slaying of six people has been arrested this morning.
* autor de una matanza = mass murderer.
* matanza indiscriminada = killing spree, shooting spree, shooting rampage.

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matanza
feminine
A (acción de matar) killing, slaughter; (de una res, un cerdo) slaughter
la matanza se hace cada año en noviembre the animals are slaughtered in November each year
la matanza de ciudadanos inocentes the slaughter o killing of innocent citizens
B (Esp) (embutidos) pork products (pl)
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matanza sustantivo femenino (acción de matar) killing, slaughter;
(de res, cerdo) slaughter;
◊ la matanza de gente inocente the mass killing of innocent people

matanza sustantivo femenino slaughter

'matanza' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
carnicería
- salvaje
English:
carnage
- massacre
- orgy
- slaughter
- wholesale
- killing
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matanza nf
1. [masacre] slaughter
2. [de cerdo] [acción] slaughtering
3. Esp [de cerdo] [productos] = pork products from a farm-slaughtered pig
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matanza
f de animales slaughter; de gente slaughter, massacre
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matanza nf
masacre: slaughter, butchering
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matanza n slaughter

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