Skip to content
Book Glossary
Home
Practice
Lessons
About
butchery
Stopped
Dictionary definition
· butchery
noun
a building where animals are butchered
the business of a butcher
the savage and excessive killing of many people
Similar words
abattoir
shambles
slaughterhouse
butchering
carnage
mass murder
massacre
slaughter
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).