Meaning

2 senses
  1. A place where animals are slaughtered.

    a building where animals are butchered

  2. (figuratively)The scene of a massacre.

    бо́йняbójnja, резня́reznjá, мясору́бкаmjasorúbka

Examples

18 sentences
  1. Sami's apartment looked like a slaughterhouse.

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  2. This building is not a slaughterhouse.

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  3. Pigs are killed in the slaughterhouse.

    ruСвиней убивают на бойне.

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  4. Ziri sent the ewe to a slaughterhouse.

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  5. I would abolish all slaughterhouses if I could.

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Translations

3 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
scene of a massacre:

Origin

From slaughter + house.

From slaughter + house.

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Forms

plural: slaughterhouses
Singularslaughterhouse
Pluralslaughterhouses

regular

Synonyms

3 synonyms
place where animals are slaughtered:shamblesC1
Close in meaning

Word family

5 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
slaughterhouse — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto