unslaughtered

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adjective

That has not yet been slaughtered.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

adjectiveunslaughtered (not comparable)
  1. Not slaughtered.
    1. not comparableThat has not yet been slaughtered.

      We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.

      1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin
      1 more example

      After that furious battle, producing rivers of blood, had commenced, and when a remnant only of the brave samsaptakas, O Bharata, were left unslaughtered, Dhrishtadyumna, O monarch, with all the kings (on the Pandava side) and those mighty car-warriors--the Pandavas themselves, all rushed against Karna only.

      1883-1896, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3
    2. not comparableDerived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.

Origin

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