as in slaughter
the killing of a large number of people
butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world
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Recent Examples of butchery
The genocide was a spasm of barely imaginable butchery and savagery.
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 July 2024
Both occurrences also appear to be isolated in time, a flash in the evolutionary pan, separated by the next oldest evidence for stone tools and butchery by hundreds of thousands of years.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Those who marched in Washington against Netanyahu’s speech before Congress are protesting the butchery and savagery perpetrated against 39,000 Palestinians, including 15,000-plus children, and the utter destruction of their towns and homes.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
In truth, Hollingsworth says, no one knows who ordered the butchery.
—Dave Kindy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
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Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 29 July 2024
Both occurrences also appear to be isolated in time, a flash in the evolutionary pan, separated by the next oldest evidence for stone tools and butchery by hundreds of thousands of years.
—Kate Wong, Scientific American, 25 June 2024
Those who marched in Washington against Netanyahu’s speech before Congress are protesting the butchery and savagery perpetrated against 39,000 Palestinians, including 15,000-plus children, and the utter destruction of their towns and homes.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 26 July 2024
In truth, Hollingsworth says, no one knows who ordered the butchery.
—Dave Kindy, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
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“Butchery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchery. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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