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[ booch-uh-ree ] / ˈbʊtʃ ə ri / SEE SYNONYMS FOR butchery ON THESAURUS.COM
noun, plural butch·er·ies.a slaughterhouse. brutal or wanton slaughter of animals or humans; carnage. the trade or business of a butcher. the act of bungling or botching. Origin of butchery1300–50; Middle English bocherie<Anglo-French, Middle French boucherie.See butcher, -y3 Words nearby butcherybutcher paper, butcher's, butcher's-broom, butcher shop, butcher's saw, butchery, butch haircut, butchy, bute, Butenandt, butene Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for butcheryHe was the first diplomat on the scene to witness the butchery in Sabra and Shatila in September 1982. 30 Years After the Beirut Bombing We Have Learned Nothing|Christopher Dickey|October 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST At best, he and other dictators will draw the lesson that they need to commit their butchery in other ways. Obama Decision on Syria Good for U.S Democracy, but His Case Is Weak|Peter Beinart|September 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST The Daily Beast: In the 1920s, Chaim Soutine riffed on Rembrandt's butchery. Oil Paint, Dry-Aged and Beefy|Blake Gopnik|June 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST None of which would pardon nor condone the butchery he is said to have unleashed. Michael Ware on Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, Accused of Killing Afghan Civilians|Michael Ware|March 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The rebels did not get near enough to stick any of our boys with their bayonets, which had been fixed for that sort of butchery. A Boy Trooper With Sheridan|Stanton P. Allen It gathered to one vast circular battle, killing and killing rats upon rats in a frenzy of loathing that grew with the butchery. The Cup of Fury|Rupert Hughes But the marshal, impatient at the slowness of the butchery, ordered the men to desist and to fire the place. The Huguenots in France|Samuel Smiles. There was frightful disorder and butchery; twenty thousand killed, five thousand captured out of forty-four thousand engaged! Battle Studies|Charles-Jean-Jacques-Joseph Ardant du Picq It was expected that they would be set upon in the streets, and the butchery there begun would be introduced into the prisons. The Countess of Charny|Alexandre Dumas (pere)
British Dictionary definitions for butchery
noun plural -eriesthe business or work of a butcher wanton and indiscriminate slaughter; carnage a less common word for slaughterhouse Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to butcherybloodbath, carnage, bloodletting, slaughterhouse, slaughter, killing, annihilation, bloodshed, decimation |