Synonyms of butchery

butchery

noun

ˈbu̇ch-rē 

as in slaughter

the killing of a large number of people

butchery on a scale that horrified the civilized world

Synonyms & Similar Words

• slaughter
• massacre
• carnage
• death
• genocide
• holocaust
• murder
• bloodbath
• killing
• bloodshed
• slaying
• extermination
• destruction
• manslaughter
• homicide
• mortality
• devastation
• execution
• annihilation
• bloodletting
• assassination
• eradication
• decimation
• pogrom
• foul play
• demolishing

Examples Sentences

Recent Examples of butchery

His conversations range from hunting and whole-animal butchery to energy fields, reincarnation and the ghost that haunts one of the guest rooms upstairs. —Ann Abel, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024

On the grind-house end of things, Hooper is still celebrated, when he’s not being reviled, for inspiring an avalanche of hardware-store butchery and final girls. —Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Aug. 2024

The genocide was a spasm of barely imaginable butchery and savagery. —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