Crossword-Solution: BUTCHERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Butchery | n. | The business of a butcher. |
| Butchery | n. | Murder or manslaughter, esp. when committed with unusual barbarity; great or cruel slaughter. |
| Butchery | n. | A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “BUTCHERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| NEEDLESS slaughter of people | 1 answer |
| ASSASSINATION | 6 answers |
| bloodbath | 6 answers |
| genocide | 9 answers |
| bleeding | 10 answers |
| manslaughter | 12 answers |
| homicide | 16 answers |
| bloodshed | 18 answers |
| extermination | 19 answers |
| butchering | 30 answers |
| holocaust | 33 answers |
| mass murder | 40 answers |
| carnage | 45 answers |
| massacre | 46 answers |
| Killing | 51 answers |
| Slaughter | 61 answers |
| atrocity | 66 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EREAT
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BUTCHERY (5)
For the rush he has not waited, On he strides with step elated, And the steel with blood unsated, Leaps to end the butchery.
Our Priests with crow and lever wrenched from their lodging-places the great rocks which had been made ready, and sent them crashing down, so that once more screams filled the pass, and the horrid butchery was renewed.
Had I not seen the repose in the first place, and the gladness that stole over it just ere the final dissolution came, as realisation that the soul had been won, I could not have gone further with my butchery.
Scarce a day or night passed over but some dismal thing or other happened at the end of that Harrow Alley, which was a place full of poor people, most of them belonging to the butchers or to employments depending upon the butchery.
But you must know, my dear Stedman, that before his arrival, war-vessels belonging to the several powers mentioned in my revised despatches, had started for Opeki at full speed, to revenge the butchery of the foreign residents.
Quotes with BUTCHERY (3)
The first time it was reported that our friends were being butchered there was a cry of horror. Then a hundred were butchered. But when a thousand were butchered and there was no end to the butchery, a blanket of silence spread. When evil-doing comes like falling rain, nobody calls out "stop!" When crimes begin to pile up they become invisible. When sufferings become unendurable the cries are no longer heard. The cries, too, fall like rain in summer.
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
I have heard ballads of great battles, and poems about the beauty of a charge and the grace of a leader. But I did not know that war was nothing more than butchery, as savage and unskilled as sticking a pig in the throat and leaving it to bleed to make the meat tender. I did not know that the style and nobility of the jousting arena had nothing to do with this thrust and stab. Just like killing a screaming piglet for bacon after chasing it round the sty. And I did not know th…