unslaughtered en · ADJ
Etymology
From un- + slaughtered.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, of an animal or person) Not slaughtered. ▸ That has not yet been slaughtered.
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.
1883-1896, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3:We might have spared ourselves the trouble, and our forty oxen remained unslaughtered.
1910, L Muehlbach, The Merchant of Berlin:
- (not-comparable, of meat) Not slaughtered. ▸ Derived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.