butchery
Meaning of butchery
noun
- the work of slaughtering animals and preparing them for sale as meat.
- the savage killing of large numbers of people.
the rebellions ended in butchery and defeat
Middle English (denoting a slaughterhouse or meat market): from Old French boucherie, from bouchier ‘butcher’.
Information about butchery
- It is a name.
- The plural form of butchery is: butcheries.
- Languages in which butchery is used:
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Hyphenation of butchery
butch-ery
- It consists of 2 syllables and 8 chars.
- butchery is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
butchery synonyms
Meaning abattoir:
abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse
Meaning butchering:
Meaning slaughter:
Meaning the killing of a person or animal:
Meaning kill (someone) unlawfully and with premeditation:
Meaning the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another:
Meaning the killing of one person by another:
Translation of butchery
- French: abattoir, massacre, boucherie, hécatombe
- Italian: mattatoio, massacro, carneficina, macelleria
- Portuguese: matadouros, açougue, massacre
- Spanish: matadero, masacre, carnicería
- German: Massaker, Blutbad, Gemetzel, Fleischerei, Metzgerei
Words that rhyme with butchery
hery, Chery, Scotchery, Zachery, archery, bewitchery, bitchery, bleachery, botchery, branchery, cutchery, debauchery, duchery, filchery, finchery, fitchery, flachery, hatchery, lechery, leechery, michery, minchery, ochery, patchery, peachery, perchery, pitchery, proarchery, schoolteachery, sprechery, stitchery, subhatchery, superchery, teachery, tolpatchery, treachery, witchery, Feighery, jagghery, spreaghery, midperiphery, periphery, semiperiphery, sphery, triumphery, Welshery, ashery, codfishery, coshery, fashery
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