Term: slaughter: the killing of animals (as for food)
Candidate hypernym: killing: the act of terminating a life → 1
Candidate hypernym: narrator: someone who tells a story → 0
Candidate hypernym: neandertal man: extinct robust human of Middle Paleolithic in Europe and western Asia → 0
Candidate hypernym: gelding: castrated male horse → 0
Candidate hypernym: europeanization: assimilation into European culture → 0
Candidate hypernym: expedience: the quality of being suited to the end in view → 0
Candidate hypernym: lemma: the heading that indicates the subject of an annotation or a literary composition or a dictionary entry → 0
Candidate hypernym: infusoria: in some recent classifications, coextensive with the Ciliata: minute organisms found in decomposing infusions of organic matter → 0
Candidate hypernym: base hit: (baseball) the successful act of striking a baseball in such a way that the batter reaches base safely → 0
Candidate hypernym: stacks: storage space in a library consisting of an extensive arrangement of bookshelves where most of the books are stored → 0
Candidate hypernym: sorption: the process in which one substance takes up or holds another (by either absorption or adsorption) → 0