Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place where animals are butchered.
- noun A scene of massacre or carnage.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house or place where animals are butchered for the market; an abattoir; hence, figuratively, the scene of a massacre; the scene of any great destruction of human life.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A place where animals are
slaughtered . - noun figuratively The scene of a
massacre .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a building where animals are butchered
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Examples
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DAVIES (voice-over): The assault is entering a new, highly sensitive stage, but as it does so, Iraqi forces fighting alongside the Marines say in a newly captured building they found what they call a slaughterhouse used for holding hostages.
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I find it curious that those who criticize hunting as "cruel" assume that an abbatoir or slaughterhouse is presumably a more humane environment.
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I find it curious that those who criticize hunting as "cruel" assume that an abbatoir or slaughterhouse is presumably a more humane environment.
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But then Schlosser actually shows what a slaughterhouse is like.
Have It Your Way shadesong 2004
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Wasn’t so long ago that working in slaughterhouse could provide you with a decent middle-class existence.
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They are not "genuine" anything, nor are they coming from a "steakhouse," except for, I guess the slaughterhouse, which is a house where steaks come from.
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Listening to bawling cows headed for the slaughterhouse is a shitty way to start a day.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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Listening to bawling cows headed for the slaughterhouse is a shitty way to start a day.
No Mercy Lori Armstrong 2010
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The slaughterhouse is an imposing building in the early-morning light.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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The slaughterhouse is an imposing building in the early-morning light.
Blood Men Paul Cleave 2010
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