"butchery" in the noun sense
1. abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse
a building where animals are butchered
2. butchery, butchering
the business of a butcher
3. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
the savage and excessive killing of many people
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