Antonyms for butchery
ˈbʊtʃ ə ributch·e·ry

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1. butchery

   A massacre is the indiscriminate killing in numbers of the unresisting or defenseless; butchery is the killing of men rudely and ruthlessly as cattle are killed in the shambles. Havoc may not be so complete as massacre, nor so coldly brutal as butchery, but is more widely spread and furious; it is destruction let loose, and may be applied to organizations, interests, etc., as well as to human life; "as for Saul, he made havoc of the church," Acts viii, 3. Carnage (Latin caro, carnis, flesh) refers to widely scattered or heaped up corpses of the slain; slaughter is similar in meaning, but refers more to the process, as carnage does to the result; these two words only of the group may be used of great destruction of life in open and honorable battle, as when we say the enemy was repulsed with great slaughter, or the carnage was terrible.

   Synonyms:
   carnage, havoc, massacre, slaughter

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1. abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhousenoun

   a building where animals are butchered

   Synonyms:
   shambles, mass murder, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, slaughter, massacre, abattoir

2. butchery, butcheringnoun

   the business of a butcher

   Synonyms:
   abattoir, shambles, mass murder, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, massacre, slaughter

3. slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butcherynoun

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   Synonyms:
   trouncing, thrashing, abattoir, debacle, walloping, mass murder, drubbing, whipping, butchering, carnage, slaughterhouse, shambles, massacre, slaughter

How to use butchery in a sentence?

1. Alexandre Polmard:

   I wanted to recreate the world of wine and shake up traditional butchery, seducing people once again to eat beef by offering them something exceptional.

2. John Kennedy:

   Chris Murphy have to figure out a way to condemn the butchery and the murder in the strongest possible terms without blowing up the Middle East, chris Murphy's what the Senate needs help on, and I am open to all suggestions on how to do that.

3. Donald Dziva of Hwedza:

   Nowadays electricity is available only from 8pm to 5am. I sleep in my mill or butchery just to catch electricity when it's switched back on. I'm forced to sell meat or refine grain at night. My losses are massive. Two of my kids may (have to) briefly stop attending college next year.

4. Judge Diane Gibbons:

   The butchery in this case was beyond my ability to describe, to live through it vicariously through the photos and the tapes and the recordings ... must have taken a toll.

5. Carly Fiorina:

   The character of this nation cannot be about butchery of babies for body parts, (Liberals) are perfectly prepared to destroy other people's jobs and livelihoods and communities in order to protect fish and frogs and flies, but they do not think a 17-week-old, a 20-week-old, a 24-week old (baby) is worth saving.

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