Definitions of butchery
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a building where animals are butchered
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synonyms:
abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse
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the business of a butcher
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synonyms:
butchering
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type of:
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business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
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business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise
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the savage and excessive killing of many people
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synonyms:
carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter
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examples:
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Alamo
a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
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Battle of the Little Bighorn
a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
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types:
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battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed
indiscriminate slaughter
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Alamo
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