butchery

Noun
  1. A building where animals are butchered (synset 102669573)
    is a type of: building, edifice - a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place
    same as: abattoir, shambles, slaughterhouse
  2. The business of a butcher (synset 100621664)
    is a type of: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise - the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects
    has: slaughter - the killing of animals (as for food)
    same as: butchering
  3. The savage and excessive killing of many people (synset 100224850)
    is a type of: execution, murder, slaying - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
    subtypes: battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed - indiscriminate slaughter
    specific instances:
    • alamo - a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico
    • battle of little bighorn, battle of the little bighorn, custer's last stand, little bighorn - a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command
    same as: carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter

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