English-Finnish translations for butchery

• teurastus
  Al-Qaidan islamilainen teurastus on iskenyt Algerin köyhään väestöön ja kohdistuu mahdollisesti myös islaminuskoisiin. The Islamic butchery of Al-Qaeda has hit the poor people of Algiers, and also causes the Islamic butchery of those people, who are probably themselves Islamic.

Definition of butchery

• The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse
• An abattoir, a slaughterhouse
• The butchering of meat
• A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure
• A meat market

Examples

• This week’s impossible-to-pronounce word: Catania. Granted, it’s a little trickier than Palermo, but there was no excusing the verbal butchery that ensued. —[http://moms.vocis.com/archives/2006/04/ blog.]

Related words

• butcher
• butcherbird
• butcheress
• unbutchered
• butchershop
• butcher's
• butcher's shop
• butcher's hook
• butcher's knife