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1. A building where animals are butchered
   - abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse
    
2. The business of a butcher
   - butchering
    
3. The savage and excessive killing of many people
   - slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage

Derived forms: butcheries

See also: butcher

Type of: building, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, edifice, execution, murder, slaying

Encyclopedia: Butchery