English Dictionary

butchery

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 稀用

The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse. / (rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse. / The butchering of meat. / A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. / A meat market

日本語の意味

残酷で無慈悲な人間への大量殺戮、虐殺（屠殺場的な状況を指す場合） / 屠殺場、肉屋（まれに畜肉処理施設として用いられる） / 肉の解体、加工（肉を切り分ける行為またはその結果） / 惨事的な試み、酷い失敗（比喩的表現としての用例） / 肉市場

The survivors spoke in hushed tones about the butchery that had occurred in the village, pleading for international intervention.

生存者たちは村で起きた虐殺についてひそひそと語り、国際的な介入を懇願した。

意味（1）

The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.

The tyrannous and bloody act is done,— The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. Dighton and Forrest, who I did suborn To do this piece of ruthless butchery

意味（2）

(rare) An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.

1899 On the third Friday Jimmie was dropped at the door of the school from the doctor's buggy. The other children, notably those who had already passed over the mountain of distress, looked at him with glee, seeing in him another lamb brought to butchery. — Stephen Crane, Making an Orator.

意味（3）

The butchering of meat.

This butchery begins in the first Japanese month. For this purpose they put the animal's head between two long poles, which are squeezed together by fifty or sixty people, both men and women. When the bear is dead they eat his flesh, keep the liver as a medicine

意味（4）

A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure.

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. —blog.

意味（5）

A meat market

butcheries （ plural ）