butchery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++butch·er·y /ˈbʊtʃəri/ noun [uncountable] 1 KILLcruel and unnecessary killing 残杀，屠杀 the butchery of battle 战场上的血腥屠杀2. DFthe preparation of meat for sale 屠宰工作
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butchery• One can easily imagine how this apparent butchery of corpses might be misinterpreted by a stranger unaccustomed to such a practice.• It was born of fear for her grandfather, he thought as he returned to his butchery of the President's shotgun.• A horrible series of futile uprisings against impossible odds and always ending in butchery and defeat for the rebels.• They feared that their troops might acquire a taste for such butchery and become no better than those they fought against.• I have felt the same shock and outrage since I lived in the Lakeside area and watched the butchery of those trees.• He had a slight grievance against the landowner, we understand, but hardly enough to account for this butchery.• It was not fighting, it was butchery.butch·er·y nounChineseSyllable
unnecessary cruel Corpus killing and
butchery
butch‧er‧y /ˈbʊtʃəri/
noun [uncountable]
1. cruel and unnecessary killing:
the butchery of battle
2. the preparation of meat for sale
butch‧er‧y /ˈbʊtʃəri/
noun [uncountable]1. cruel and unnecessary killing:
2. the preparation of meat for sale