| NOUN | artifact | butchery, abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse | a building where animals are butchered |
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| act | butchery, butchering | the business of a butcher | |
| act | butchery, slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage | the savage and excessive killing of many people |
| Sounds | buh'cheriy | |
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| Rhymes | accessory ... worry: 201 rhymes with eriy... | |
| Meaning | A building where animals are butchered. | |
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| Synonyms | abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse | |
| Broader | building, edifice | A structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place |
| Spanish | degolladero, matadero, mataderos | |
| Catalan | escorxador | |
| Verbs | butcher | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
| Meaning | The business of a butcher. | |
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| Synonym | butchering | |
| Parts | slaughter | The killing of animals (as for food) |
| Broader | commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business | The activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects |
| Spanish | carnicería | |
| Catalan | carnisseria | |
| Verbs | butcher | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
| Meaning | The savage and excessive killing of many people. | |
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| Synonyms | slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage | |
| Instances | Alamo | A siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836 |
| Little Bighorn, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand | A battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry / cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876) | |
| Narrower | bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed, battue | indiscriminate slaughter |
| Broader | murder, slaying, execution | unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being |
| Spanish | carnaje, carnicería, masacre, matanza, mortandad | |
| Catalan | carnatge, carnisseria, massacre, matança | |
| Verbs | butcher | kill (animals) usually for food consumption |
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