Butchery

['bʊtʃərɪ] or ['bʊtʃəri]

(noun.) the business of a butcher.

Edited by Lizzie--From WordNet

(n.) The business of a butcher.

(n.) Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter.

(n.) A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed.

Edited by Cathryn

n. Murder, slaughter, massacre, carnage, bloodshed.

Checked by Cindy

The Belgians in vain interposed to prevent the butchery of the English. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Shall man be the enemy of man, while plague, the foe to all, even now is above us, triumphing in our butchery, more cruel than her own? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Lizzie