unslaughtered
adjEtymology From un- + slaughtered.
› Not slaughtered.
1
Of an animal or person 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:
2
Of meat Derived from an animal that died some way other than being slaughtered.