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Definition of Butchery

1. Noun. A building where animals are butchered.

2. Noun. The business of a butcher.

3. Noun. The savage and excessive killing of many people.

Definition of Butchery

1. n. The business of a butcher.

Definition of Butchery

1. Noun. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse. ¹

2. Noun. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse. ¹

3. Noun. The butchering of meat. ¹

4. Noun. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. ¹

5. Noun. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accouterments of being a butch lesbian. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Butchery

1. wanton or cruel killing [n -ERIES]

Medical Definition of Butchery

1. 1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, especially. When committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. "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) Synonym: Murder, slaughter, carnage. See Massacre. Origin: OE. Bocherie shambles, fr. F. Boucherie. See Butcher. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Butchery

butcheress butcheresses butcheries butchering butcherings butcherknife butcherknives butcherliness butcherly butchers

butchers' knife butchers' paper butchers knife butchershop butchershops butches butchest butching butchings butchly

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