the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Destructive; murderous.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Bent on killing; murderous.
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adj. accompanied by bloodshed
Word Usage
"Look at Grendel, the ur-slasher, the slaughterous bog-dweller whose war on society and eventual comeuppance are chronicled in the thousand-year-old text of Beowulf."