Word Meanings - BUTCHERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like

Additional info about word: BUTCHERY

1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. 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. Syn. -- Murder; slaughter; carnage. See Massacre.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUTCHERY)

• Bloodshed
• Slaughter
• massacre
• carnage
• butchery
• Carnage
• Massacre
• slaughter
• bloodshed

Related words: (words related to BUTCHERY)

• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• SLAUGHTER
  The act of killing. Specifically: The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage. On war and mutual slaughter bent. Milton. The act of killing cattle or other beasts for market. Syn. -- Carnage; massacre; butchery; murder;
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• CARNAGE
  1. Flesh of slain animals or men. A miltitude of dogs came to feast on the carnage. Macaulay. 2. Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. Macaulay.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• MASSACRE
  metzgen, to kill cattle, G. metzger a butcher, and LG. matsken to 1. The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St.
• BLOODSHOT
  Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.
• MASSACRER
  One who massacres.
• SLAUGHTEROUS
  Destructive; murderous. Shak. M. Arnold. -- Slaugh"ter*ous*ly, adv.
• SLAUGHTERER
  One who slaughters.
• BLOODSHED
  The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• SLAUGHTERMAN
  One employed in slaughtering. Shak.
• BUTCHERY
  1. The business of a butcher. 2. Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. Shak. The perpetration of human butchery. Prescott. 3. A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. Like
• MANSLAUGHTER
  The unlawful killing of a man, either in negligenc (more info) 1. The slaying of a human being; destruction of men. Milton.
• SELF-SLAUGHTER
  Suicide. Shak.