Definitions for butcheries

butcheries butch·er·y

Spelling: [boo ch-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈbʊtʃ ə ri/

Butcheries is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 712 anagrams from letters in butcheries (bceehirstu).

Definitions for butcheries

noun

  1. a slaughterhouse.
  2. brutal or wanton slaughter of animals or humans; carnage.
  3. the trade or business of a butcher.
  4. the act of bungling or botching.

Origin of butcheries

1300-50; Middle English bocherie Anglo-French, Middle French boucherie. See butcher, -y3

Examples for butcheries

None of which would pardon nor condone the butchery he is said to have unleashed.

But some there were in that crowd that would be no passive witnesses of this butchery.

And those who had laid their hands to deeds of butchery went as exiles to the Lacedaemonians.

He was the first diplomat on the scene to witness the butchery in Sabra and Shatila in September 1982.

The Daily Beast: In the 1920s, Chaim Soutine riffed on Rembrandt's butchery.

You have heard of Brayne's last experiment in butchery, I suppose?

At best, he and other dictators will draw the lesson that they need to commit their butchery in other ways.

Du Sang stood in no need of the butchery; the escape could have been made without it.

At that time the Sultan had just completed the butchery of many Armenians.

Let us return to the butchery on the boulevard, to the words, "Let my orders be executed!"

Word Value for butcheries
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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