English-French translations for butchery

• boucherie
  La boucherie islamique d'Al-Qaïda a frappé les pauvres habitants d'Alger, des personnes qui sont probablement musulmanes. 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.
  L’ampleur de la fusillade était telle, et son caractère si arbitraire et disproportionné, qu’il n’est pas exagéré d’employer le terme de boucherie. The extent of the shooting was so enormous and its character so random and disproportionate, that it would not be unreasonable to describe it as butchery.
  Réduire le budget de tout projet émanant de la Commission ou du Parlement n'est pas une technique budgétaire, mais un exemple réel de boucherie financière. Making cuts across the board to any project that comes from the Commission or Parliament is not a budgetary technique but a genuine example of financial butchery.

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