boucherie

Definitions of boucherie
  1. noun
    the savage and excessive killing of many people
    synonyms: carnage, massacre
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    types:
    carnage, hécatombe
    indiscriminate slaughter
    type of:
    homicide, meurtre
    unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
  2. noun
    a shop in which meat and poultry (and sometimes fish) are sold
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    type of:
    commerce, magasin
    a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
  3. noun
    the killing of animals (as for food)
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    type of:
    meurtre
    the act of terminating a life
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