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English noun: butchery | |||
| 1. | butchery (artifact) a building where animals are butchered | ||
| Synonyms | abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | building, edifice | ||
| 2. | butchery (act) the business of a butcher | ||
| Synonyms | butchering | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
| Part holonym | slaughter | ||
| 3. | butchery (act) the savage and excessive killing of many people | ||
| Synonyms | carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | execution, murder, slaying | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed | ||
| Instance hyponym | Alamo, Battle of Little Bighorn, Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand, Little Bighorn | ||
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