Synonyms:
slaughter, massacre, mass_murder, carnage, butchery
Meaning: the savage and excessive killing of many people
Synonyms:
butchery, butchering
Meaning: the business of a butcher
Synonyms:
abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse
Meaning: a building where animals are butchered
Usage examples
I don't like this butchery of worn-out slaves and petty thieves any better than anybody else, but this I don't like either. Six months ago, Gurgurk wouldn't have tried to pull anything like this.
Butchery and pillage had begun, and the work of destruction must needs be completed: in vain did Fabrizio Colonna, Ranuzio di Marciano, and Don Ugo di Cardona attempt to make head against the French and Spaniards with such men as they could get together.
From their remote position, and the difficult nature of the intervening country, they thought themselves safe; but a band of Iroquois, marching on snow-shoes a distance of twenty days' journey northward from the St. Lawrence, fell upon one of their camps in the winter, and made a general butchery of the inmates.