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butchery
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun butchery has 3 senses
- butchery(n = noun.artifact) abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse - a building where animals are butchered; Array is a kind of building, edifice
- butchery(n = noun.act) butchering - the business of a butcher; Array has parts: slaughter
- butchery(n = noun.act) carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter - the savage and excessive killing of many people; Array is a kind of execution, murder, slaying
Derived form verb butcher1
is a kind of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
Derived form verb butcher1
has particulars: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, alamo, battle of little bighorn, battle of the little bighorn, custer's last stand, little bighorn
Derived form verb butcher1
CIDE DICTIONARY
- The business of a butcher. [1913 Webster]
- Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. [1913 Webster]"The perpetration of human butchery." [1913 Webster]
- A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [1913 Webster]"Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery." [1913 Webster]
Syn. -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
butchery, n. (pl. -ies)
1 needless or cruel slaughter (of people).
2 the butcher's trade.
3 a slaughterhouse.
1 needless or cruel slaughter (of people).
2 the butcher's trade.
3 a slaughterhouse.
Etymology
ME f. OF boucherie (as BUTCHER)
ROGET THESAURUS
butchery
Killing
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.
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