manslaughter

The word “manslaughter” has 3 syllables: man-slaugh-ter

It's pronounced as /ˈmænˌslɔːtɚ/


What is synonym and antonym for manslaughter?

In the thesaurus, “manslaughter” has 28 synonyms.

Here are synonyms for manslaughter along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for manslaughter

  • assassination
  • blood
  • bloodshed
  • butchery
  • carnage
  • chance-medley
  • crime
  • decimation
  • destruction
  • euthanasia
  • execution
  • filicide
  • foul play
  • fratricide
  • hit
  • homicide
  • killing
  • massacre
  • matricide
  • mercy killing
  • murder
  • parricide
  • patricide
  • regicide
  • rubout
  • slaughter
  • slaying
  • uxoricide

Meanings of manslaughter

  • noun
    1. The slaying of a human being.
    2. The unlawful killing of a human, either in negligence or incidentally to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger.

Example Sentences

  • He was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder due to the lack of intent.
  • The court sentenced her to ten years in prison for manslaughter.
  • His lawyer argued that it was an accident and should be classified as manslaughter.
  • The jury found him guilty of manslaughter, citing negligence in his actions.
  • Manslaughter charges were filed after the fatal car crash.

On this page you'll find 28 synonyms or another words to manslaughter, such as: assassination, blood, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, chance-medley, crime.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

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death

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  • manslaughter
  • martyrdom
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killing

offing

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  • butchering
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  • manslaughter
  • mass murder
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  • neutralizing
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  • search and destroy
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  • shooting
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  • slaughter
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  • smiting
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  • terrorism
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  • the works
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  • tomorrow
  • underworld
  • warfare
  • wasting
  • whacking
  • wiping out
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  • zapping

wasting

  • abating
  • acerb
  • acerbic
  • acrid
  • adulteration
  • altruistic
  • annihilating
  • annihilation
  • anorexia
  • assassinating
  • atrophy
  • attenuation
  • beating
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  • beneficent
  • benevolent
  • besting
  • biting
  • blasting
  • blight
  • blitz
  • blood
  • blood and guts
  • blood bath
  • bloodshed
  • blotting out
  • blowing
  • blowing up
  • boniness
  • bounteous
  • bountiful
  • breakdown
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  • burglary
  • butchering
  • butchery
  • caries
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  • charitable
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  • dilapidating
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  • diminishing
  • disabling
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  • diseased
  • disfiguring
  • disintegrating
  • disintegration
  • dismantling
  • dispatching
  • disrepair
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  • dissolution
  • dissolving
  • doing in
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  • dropping
  • drubbing
  • dwindling
  • dying
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  • dynamiting
  • ebbing
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  • enervating
  • enfeebled
  • enfeebling
  • eradicating
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  • erosive
  • etiolating
  • executing
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  • generous
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  • holocaust
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  • hospitable
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  • killing
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  • malnutrition
  • mangling
  • manslaughter
  • marasmus
  • marauding
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  • mass murder
  • massacring
  • mastering
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  • mortification
  • munificent
  • murder
  • murdering
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  • narrowing
  • nuking
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  • openhanded
  • openhearted
  • overbearing
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  • overindulging
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  • overspending
  • paralyzing
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  • philanthropic
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  • pillage
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  • playing ducks and drakes with
  • plummeting
  • plunder
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  • plunging
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • profuse
  • prostrating
  • pulling down
  • pulverizing
  • putrefaction
  • putrescence
  • putridity
  • putridness
  • quieting
  • ransacking
  • rapine
  • ravaging
  • razing
  • removing
  • robbery
  • rocky
  • rot
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  • routing
  • rubbing out
  • ruin
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  • sacking
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  • scotching
  • scouring
  • search and destroy
  • selfless
  • senescence
  • shambles
  • shattering
  • shooting
  • shrinking
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  • sick
  • sick as a dog
  • sickly
  • sinking
  • skinniness
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  • slackening
  • slaughter
  • slaughtering
  • slaying
  • slowing
  • slumping
  • smashing
  • softening
  • spending
  • spendthrift
  • splurging
  • spoilage
  • spoilation
  • spoiling
  • spoliation
  • squandering
  • starvation
  • stealing
  • strongly acid
  • subduing
  • subsiding
  • surmounting
  • tabes
  • taking down
  • taking out
  • tearing down
  • theft
  • thinness
  • thrashing
  • thriftless
  • throwing away
  • tiring
  • totaling
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  • trampling
  • trashing
  • trenchant
  • trimming
  • trouncing
  • unbuilding
  • under the weather
  • undernourishment
  • undoing
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  • unmanning
  • unselfish
  • unsparing
  • unstinting
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  • vandalizing
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  • venomous
  • virulent
  • vitiating
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  • warfare
  • washing out
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  • whipping
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  • zapping

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