Collocations for slaughter - noun

indiscriminate, mass, wholesale
the indiscriminate slaughter of civilians

brutal, senseless, terrible
ritual
animal
humane forms of animal slaughter

halal, kosher
She supports a ban on kosher and halal slaughter, believing that such methods are cruel.

end, prevent, stop
We were helpless to stop the slaughter.

ban
federal legislation to ban horse slaughter

order
Officials ordered the slaughter of hundreds of animals.

for slaughter
the transporting of live horses for slaughter

the slaughter of innocents
the horrors of civil war and the slaughter of innocents

Collocations for slaughter - verb

humanely
The animals are all humanely slaughtered.

ritually
illegally
elephants illegally slaughtered by poachers

for
Thousands of birds were slaughtered for their feathers.

brutally, cruelly
Hundreds of innocent civilians were cruelly slaughtered.

indiscriminately
systematically
Thousands of people were systematically slaughtered by their oppressors.

Slaughter is used with these nouns as the object:
animal, cattle, cow, lamb, pig, sheep