slaughter

n 1: the killing of animals (as for food)

2: a sound defeat [syn: {thrashing}, {walloping}, {debacle}, {drubbing},

{trouncing}, {whipping}]

3: the savage and excessive killing of people [syn: {carnage},

{butchery}]

v 1: kill; used of animals, but also used for people to indicate

brutality [syn: {butcher}]

2: kill a large number of people indiscriminately; "The Hutus

massacred the Tutsis in Rwanda" [syn: {massacre}, {mow

down}]

daughter

(Or "child", "successor") In a {tree}, a

{node} pointed to by a {parent}, i.e. another node closer to

the {root node}.

(1998-11-14)