butchery
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(noun) the business of a butcher |
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Synonyms: butchering |
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Related Words: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
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(noun) a building where animals are butchered |
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Synonyms: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse |
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Related Words: building, edifice |
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(noun) the savage and excessive killing of people |
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Synonyms: carnage, slaughter |
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Related Words: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, homicide, murder, slaying |
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