as in slaughter
the killing of a large number of people
butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world
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Recent Examples of butchery
Vespaio was one of the first restaurants in the region to engage in whole animal butchery and even kept its own herb garden on the property.
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Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
The Market by the Meat Cellar was noted for, as its name suggests, cuts of mean from Premier Meat Company and its nontraditional format that combined a butchery, cheese shop, culinary boutique and a full-service steakhouse all in one spot.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
Besides, their exchange had a realness to it that had to make many a cynic pause, however briefly, before proceeding to the online butchery.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
Egan says 95 percent of customers order steak, from prime or choice beef bought from a longtime family packer in Nebraska, then aged and cut in the restaurant’s butchery.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
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Matthew Odam, Austin American Statesman, 27 Feb. 2026
The Market by the Meat Cellar was noted for, as its name suggests, cuts of mean from Premier Meat Company and its nontraditional format that combined a butchery, cheese shop, culinary boutique and a full-service steakhouse all in one spot.
—Brock Keeling, Oc Register, 23 Feb. 2026
Besides, their exchange had a realness to it that had to make many a cynic pause, however briefly, before proceeding to the online butchery.
—Steve Buckley, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2026
Egan says 95 percent of customers order steak, from prime or choice beef bought from a longtime family packer in Nebraska, then aged and cut in the restaurant’s butchery.
—Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
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Fulda all but ditches his ambitious partner Chaton (Vincent Dedienne), in order to team up with Stéphane to get to the bottom of the endless pig-slaughter, and to put paid to the local superstition that Brun’s ghost may be the culprit.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
16 June 2026
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The coup ended with the slaughter or imprisonment of most of its participants.—
Ben Taub,
New Yorker,
15 June 2026
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Smiley Martin died in 2024 in Sacramento County Main Jail awaiting trial in the massacre.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
19 June 2026
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Six years later, 49 people were killed and and more than 50 were injured on June 12, 2016, in the Orlando, Florida, massacre at Pulse, a nightclub popular with LGBTQ+ men of color.—
Jay Stahl,
USA Today,
16 June 2026
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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