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butchery

[ booch-uh-ree ]

noun

plural butcheries.
  1. a slaughterhouse.
  2. brutal or wanton slaughter of animals or humans; carnage.
  3. the trade or business of a butcher. butcher.
  4. the act of bungling or botching.


butchery

/ ˈ²úÊŠ³Ùʃə°ùɪ /

noun

  1. the business or work of a butcher
  2. wanton and indiscriminate slaughter; carnage
  3. a less common word for slaughterhouse
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of butchery1

1300–50; Middle English bocherie < Anglo-French, Middle French boucherie. See butcher, -y 3
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Encountering “Macbeth†during a time when the federal government appears to be under attack from within, I watched with heightened horror Macbeth’s descent into paranoid butchery after he murders Duncan and assumes the throne.

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It was there that I came to see the possibilities in a robust whole-animal butchery program and a more radical approach to sourcing ingredients.

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“And at some point we opened the window… and the stench was like a butchery… Like in the market, where it's not very clean.â€

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Signs of butchery on the bones, along with stone tools and other evidence, indicate that Taguatagua 3 represents a temporary camp established around the task of processing the large carcass.

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But prosecution barrister Caroline Carberry KC described the procedures as little more than "human butchery" carried out using household instruments, done for financial reward and for sexual, rather than psychiatric, reasons.

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