Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun butchery

3 senses of butchery

Sense 1
abattoir, butchery, shambles, slaughterhouse -- (a building where animals are butchered)
       => building, edifice -- (a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place; "there was a three-story building on the corner"; "it was an imposing edifice")

Sense 2
butchery, butchering -- (the business of a butcher)
       => commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business -- (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business")

Sense 3
slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery -- (the savage and excessive killing of many people)
       => murder, slaying, execution -- (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)