All butchery synonyms
butch·er·y
B b noun butchery
- bloodletting — Bloodletting is violence or killing between groups of people, especially between rival armies.
- bloodbath — If you describe an event as a bloodbath, you are emphasizing that a lot of people were killed very violently.
- carnage — Carnage is the violent killing of large numbers of people, especially in a war.
- slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
- killing — the act of killing, especially game: The hounds moved in for the kill.
- annihilation — the act of annihilating
- bloodshed — Bloodshed is violence in which people are killed or wounded.
- decimation — to destroy a great number or proportion of: The population was decimated by a plague.
- slaughterhouse — a building or place where animals are butchered for food; abattoir.