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Word Meanings - BUTCHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like

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1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan. Syn. -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.

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  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • SLAUGHTER
    The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder;
  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE
    A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
  • CARNAGE
    1. Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay. 2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. Macaulay.
  • BLOODSHEDDING
    Bloodshed. Shak.
  • MASSACRE
    metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St.
  • BLOODSHOT
    Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.
  • MASSACRER
    One who massacres.
  • SLAUGHTEROUS
    Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
  • SLAUGHTERER
    One who slaughters.
  • BLOODSHED
    The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
  • SLAUGHTERMAN
    One employed in slaughtering. Shak.
  • BUTCHERY
    1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like
  • MANSLAUGHTER
    The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
  • SELF-SLAUGHTER
    Suicide. Shak.

 

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