butchery

butch·er·y  (bch-r)

n. pl. butch·er·ies

1. Wanton or cruel killing; carnage.

2. Something botched; a bungle.

3. The trade of a butcher.

4. Chiefly British A slaughterhouse.

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butchery [ˈbʊtʃərɪ]

n pl -eries

1. the business or work of a butcher

2. wanton and indiscriminate slaughter; carnage

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) a less common word for slaughterhouse

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Butchery butchers collectively, 1475.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	butchery - a building where animals are butchered abattoir, slaughterhouse, shambles building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice"
	2.	butchery - the business of a butcher             butchering slaughter - the killing of animals (as for food) business enterprise, commercial enterprise, business - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business"
	3.	butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter murder, slaying, execution - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue - indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue was ordered"

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butchery

noun

1. slaughter, killing, murder, massacre, bloodshed, carnage, mass murder, blood-letting, blood bath War is simply a legalised form of butchery.

2. carving, cutting up, dressing, cleaning, jointing a carcass hung up for butchery

Translations

butchery [ˈbʊtʃərɪ] N (lit) → carnicería f (fig) → matanza f, carnicería f

butchery [ˈbʊtʃəri] n

(= slaughter) [people] → boucherie f

butchery

n (= slaughter) → Gemetzel nt, → Metzelei f; the butchery of millions → das Abschlachten or Niedermetzeln von Millionen; stop the fight, this is butchery! → brechen Sie den Kampf ab, das ist ja das reinste Gemetzel!

butchery [ˈbʊtʃərɪ] n

a. (massacre) → massacro

b. (work of a butcher) → macellazione f, macelleria