unslaughtered

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ slaughtered

Adjective[edit]

unslaughtered (not comparable)

  1. Not slaughtered.
    • 1883-1896, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3[1]:
      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.
    • 1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin[2]:
      We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.