slaughterhouse
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slaughterhouse (plural slaughterhouses)
- A place where animals are slaughtered.
- Synonym: abattoir
- (figuratively) The scene of a massacre.
- 2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 20:09 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?[1], archived from the original on 3 November 2022:
- The smaller shells make a complete slaughterhouse of the bridge, and the splinters scythe through anyone out on deck.
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abattoir — see abattoir
scene of a massacre
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