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
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.
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Coins, bracelets, cutting devices for manicures and butchery, projectiles.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
—Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
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Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
Ho is the owner of the Royce, a downtown Detroit wine bar; Marrow, the award-winning restaurant and neighborhood butchery shop in Detroit’s West Village, and Marrow Birmingham on Hamilton Row in Birmingham.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 14 Nov. 2025
Coins, bracelets, cutting devices for manicures and butchery, projectiles.
—Literary Hub, 3 Nov. 2025
Sow is bringing the same energy seen in the halal BBQ world to halal butchery.
—Farhan Mustafa, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchery
Noun
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What followed was sheer amphibian slaughter — when the mating season started and the frogs were on the move, thousands would get run over.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Decades of this rhetoric have driven most Iranians—who have noticed that the wages of resistance are misery, hardship, and slaughter by their own wicked oppressors—to despair.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
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Hannah Abesidon, the daughter of 78-year-old Holocaust survivor Tibor Weitzen, one of the 15 people killed in the Bondi Beach massacre, recounted her experience of the attack in which her father was killed.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2026
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In the film, a modern-day young female director, Mariana, played by Ioana Iacob, stages a reënactment of the massacre at a square in Bucharest.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 18 Apr. 2026.
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