Synonyms of the word

butchery

• n. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
• n. (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
• n. The butchering of meat.
• n. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.
• n. A meat market.
• n. (slang) The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian.

abattoir

• n. A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
• n. A place likened to a slaughterhouse.

building

• n. (uncountable) The act or process of building.
• n. A closed structure with walls and a roof.
• v. present participle of build.

business

• n. (countable) A specific commercial enterprise or establishment.
• n. (countable) A person's occupation, work, or trade.
• n. (uncountable) Commercial, industrial, or professional activity.
• n. (uncountable) The volume or amount of commercial trade.
• n. (uncountable) One's dealings; patronage.
• n. (uncountable) Private commercial interests taken collectively.
• n. (uncountable) The management of commercial enterprises, or the study of such management.
• n. (countable) A particular situation or activity.
• n. (countable) An objective or a matter needing to be dealt with.
• n. (uncountable) Something involving one personally.
• n. (uncountable, parliamentary procedure) Matters that come before a body for deliberation or action.
• n. (travel, uncountable) Business class, the class of seating provided by airlines between first class and…
• n. (acting) Action carried out with a prop or piece of clothing, usually away from the focus of the scene.
• n. (countable, rare) The collective noun for a group of ferrets.
• n. (uncountable, slang, Britain) Something very good; top quality. (possibly from "the bee's knees").
• n. (slang, uncountable) Excrement, particularly that of a non-human animal.
• adj. Of, to, pertaining to or utilized for purposes of conducting trade, commerce, governance, advocacy or…
• adj. Professional, businesslike, having concern for good business practice.
• adj. Supporting business, conducive to the conduct of business.

butchering

• v. present participle of butcher.
• n. The act by which someone or something is butchered; a slaughter or killing.

carnage

• n. Death and destruction.
• n. What remains after a massacre, e.g. the corpses or gore.
• n. (figuratively, slang) Any chaotic situation.

edifice

• n. A building; a structure; an architectural fabric, especially an imposing one; a large or fine building,…
• n. An abstract structure; a school of thought.

execution

• n. The act, manner or style of executing (actions, maneuvers, performances).
• n. The state of being executed (accomplished).
• n. The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.
• n. (law) The carrying into effect of a court judgment, or of a will.
• n. (law) The formal process by which a contract is made valid and put into binding effect.
• n. (computing) The carrying out of an instruction, program or program segment by a computer.

massacre

• n. The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be…
• n. (obsolete) Murder.
• n. (figuratively) Any overwhelming defeat, as in a game or sport.
• v. (transitive) To kill in considerable numbers where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate…
• v. (figuratively) To win so decisively it is in the manner of so slaughtering one's opponent.
• v. (figuratively) To give a performance so poorly it is in the manner of so slaughtering the musical piece,…

murder

• n. (countable) An act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human.
• n. (uncountable) The crime of deliberate killing of another human.
• n. (uncountable, law, in jurisdictions which use the felony murder rule) The commission of an act which abets…
• n. (uncountable, used as a predicative noun) Something terrible to endure.
• n. (countable, collective) A group of crows; the collective noun for crows.
• v. To deliberately kill (a person or persons).
• v. (transitive, sports, figuratively, colloquial) To defeat decisively.
• v. To botch or mangle.
• v. (figuratively, colloquial) To kick someone's ass or chew someone out (used to express one’s anger at somebody).
• v. (figuratively, colloquial, Britain) to devour, ravish.

shambles

• n. work done in a poor fashion.
• n. a scene of great disorder or ruin.
• n. a great mess or clutter.
• n. a scene of bloodshed, carnage or devastation.
• n. a slaughterhouse.
• n. (archaic) a butcher's shop.
• v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shamble.

slaughter

• n. (uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food; ritual slaughter (kosher and halal).
• n. A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.
• n. A rout or decisive defeat.
• v. (transitive) To butcher animals, generally for food.
• v. (transitive) To massacre people in large numbers.
• v. (transitive) To kill in a particularly brutal manner.

slaughterhouse

• n. A place where animals are slaughtered.
• n. (figuratively) The scene of a massacre.

slaying

• n. Killing, especially murder of a human.
• v. present participle of slay.