Definitions for butchery

butchery butch·er·y

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

Butchery is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in butchery (bcehrtuy).

Definitions for butchery

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 butchery

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

Examples for butchery

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for butchery
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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