butchery
Where carcasses hang
Butchery is the work of slaughtering animals and preparing their meat for sale—the butcher's trade.
A butchery is also the place where this work happens.
The word extends to brutal killing, especially of people: The battle descended into butchery.
More loosely, butchery describes any clumsy, destructive handling: His editing was sheer butchery of the original text.
Large-scale unlawful killing
- carnageWidespread violent death
- bloodshedKilling and wounding
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- killingCausing death deliberately
genocide · violence · murder · savagery · horror · bloodbath · cruelty · barbarism
Meat processing facility
- killingCausing death deliberately
- carcassSlaughtered animal's body
- livestockDomesticated farm animals
- cullingSelective population reduction
bleeding · stunning · halal · kosher · processing · dispatch · humane · bolt
massacre
Large-scale unlawful killing
killing · genocide · violence · murder · savagery · horror · bloodbath · cruelty · barbarism · rampage
abattoir
Meat processing facility
culling · bleeding · stunning · halal · kosher · processing · dispatch · humane · bolt · hoisting
botched
Poorly executed, spoiled
bungled · mutilated · destroyed · mishandled · amateurish · clumsy · crude · careless · sloppy · massacre
meat
Animal tissue for food
block · counter · curing · smoking · sausage · mince · chops · joints · boning · trimming
- livelihoodsjob, career, work, income, profession
- carnagebloodshed, bloodbath, massacre, carnage, gore
- atrocitiesHolocaust, genocide, massacre, massacres, ethnic cleansing
- meatpackingmeatpacker, abattoirs, meatpacking plant, packing house, poultry plant
- mass killingmass murder, massacre, carnage, bloodshed, annihilation
- rural industriesdairy, ranching, farming, forestry, livestock breeding
butcherysalvation
Deliverance from harm
deliverance · rescue · saving · preservation · protection
butcherygentleness
Soft, kind demeanor
tenderness · delicacy · carefulness · compassion · kindness
butcheryartistry
Exceptional creative skill
craftsmanship · finesse · precision · mastery · surgical precision
- butcher shopStore selling raw meat
- butcher knifeHeavy blade for meat
- butcher blockLaminated wood work surface
- butcher paperHeavy food-wrapping paper
- butcher's knifeLarge blade for meat
- butcher knivesBlades for cutting meat