keulen — meaning in English

English meaning

• cull verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
• slaughter noun The killing of animals for food.

Senses

keulen is used for these senses in English:

• cull To select animals from a group and then kill them in order to reduce the numbers of the group in a controlled manner.
• slaughter (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.

cull — full definition

1. verb To select or pick something out from a larger group.
2. verb To reduce the number of animals in a population by killing some of them in a controlled way.
3. noun The organized killing of selected animals to control numbers.

slaughter — full definition

1. noun The killing of animals for food.
2. noun The brutal killing of many people; a massacre.
3. verb To kill animals for food, typically on a large scale.
4. verb To kill a large number of people brutally.

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