A place or event likened to a slaughterhouse, because of great carnage or bloodshed.
A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Extensive destruction of a group of animals or (especially) people; a large-scale massacre or slaughter.
Complete destruction by fire; also, the thing so destroyed.
An offering or sacrifice to a deity that is completely burned to ashes.
A complete or large offering or sacrifice.
To sacrifice (chiefly an animal) to be completely burned.
To destroy (something) completely, especially by fire.
To subject (a group of people) to a holocaust (mass annihilation); to destroy en masse.