| 单词 | butchery |
| 释义 | butchery (once / 4952 pages) n WORD FAMILY butchery: butcheries+/butcher: butchered, butchering, butcherly, butchers, butchery/butchering: butcherings USAGE EXAMPLESFor what it’s worth, however, an official with the Scottish butchery Macsween thinks a lung-less recipe should be equally refreshing, if not more so. Washington Times(Nov 25, 2016) We can stop herding cows into butchery machines. The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) Mr. McCain warned that the price of working with Moscow will be “complicity in Putin and Assad’s butchery of the Syrian people.” Washington Times(Nov 15, 2016) 1n a building where animals are butchered Syn|Hyper abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse building, edifice a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place 2n the business of a butcher Syn|Hyper butchering business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects 3n the savage and excessive killing of many people Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter Alamo a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed indiscriminate slaughter execution, murder, slaying unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
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