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
Staff swiftly and expertly break down the fish at butchery stations across from a grid of icy oyster trays — the Blue Points are sourced from Long Island.
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Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Patole heads to a market town to buy leafy greens, then trudges down a muddy road lined with butcher shops, each a hole-in-the-wall, run by Muslim men – the Indian minority dominates the butchery trade.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Chef Stephen Peak sources 90 percent of ingredients from the on-site greenhouse and gardens, and staffers practice whole-animal butchery, make their own cheese and charcuterie, bake their own bread, and preserve and ferment seasonal produce.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 27 Dec. 2024
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Maria Yagoda, Curbed, 19 Dec. 2024
Patole heads to a market town to buy leafy greens, then trudges down a muddy road lined with butcher shops, each a hole-in-the-wall, run by Muslim men – the Indian minority dominates the butchery trade.
—Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 15 Dec. 2024
The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
—Liz Tracey, JSTOR Daily, 21 Feb. 2025
Chef Stephen Peak sources 90 percent of ingredients from the on-site greenhouse and gardens, and staffers practice whole-animal butchery, make their own cheese and charcuterie, bake their own bread, and preserve and ferment seasonal produce.
—Nicholas Derenzo, AFAR Media, 27 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
Noun
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His 2020 documentary Gunda, executive produced by Oscar-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix, examined the life of a pig raising a farrow of piglets who are then seized and sent to slaughter.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
6 June 2025
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At the moment, most American beef cannot be exported to Britain, in part because of the widespread practice of hormone treatment but also because of other regulations, including those covering the method of slaughter.—
Eshe Nelson,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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These included a shopping mall siege in 2013 that killed over 60, a bus hijacking in 2014 that killed 28, and a 2015 college massacre where 148 people—predominantly Christian students—were killed.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 June 2025
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Israel on Thursday recovered the bodies of two hostages who were abducted in the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre that ignited the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip.—
Bradford Betz , Yael Rotem-Kuriel,
FOXNews.com,
5 June 2025
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 17 Jun. 2025.
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