Difference between slaughterhouse and shambles and slaughter
Definitions
noun
- a building where animals are butchered
Examples
A dexter mens white gold wedding band sine potshot upon the slaughterhouse of the kuvasz or ploughwright from osasco or salientian wedgwood.
But will they take the matter very seriously and close the animal slaughterhouses altogether?
Man, those narrow-lapelled sharkskin suits, that felling left and that slaughterhouse right, and that scowl: his badness transcended race.
Definitions
noun
- a building where animals are butchered
- a condition of great disorder
Examples
I have not seen such a drunken shambles for ages - he was really struggling, slurring his words, the lot.
What a complete and utter shambles.
An emergency squad of 600 plumbers and electricians has been drafted in to repair the shambles.
Definitions
noun
- the savage and excessive killing of many people
- a sound defeat
- the killing of animals (as for food)
verb
- kill (animals) usually for food consumption
- kill a large number of people indiscriminately
Examples
Children in particular should not have to witness wholesale slaughter of animals to which they may have become very attached.
Bull calves from dairy herds are usually castrated, becoming steers, and sent to feedlots, where they are fattened for slaughter, usually before the age of 2.
Jackson and Lee continued to preside over the wanton slaughter of men, women and children to defend the rights of freedom for white Virginians while supporting the slavery of black Virginians, among others.
