butchery

1. (countable, uncountable)The butchering of meat.

   (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)

2. (countable, uncountable)A butcher's shop; a meat market.

   the business of a butcher

3. (countable, uncountable)The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse.

4. (countable, rare, uncountable)An abattoir.

5. (countable, uncountable)A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.

6. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.

   (countable, uncountable)Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so.

7. (countable, slang, uncountable)The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of a butch lesbian.

1. The bakery is next to the butchery.

   deDie Bäckerei liegt neben der Metzgerei.

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2. Unfortunately, Ron's butchery of the French language had the opposite of its intended effect.

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