unslaughtered

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ slaughtered.

Adjective

unslaughtered (not comparable)

  1. Not slaughtered.
    1. (of an animal or person) That has not yet been 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.
    2. (of meat) Derived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.
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