butchery

1. The butchering of meat. (countable, uncountable) · (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
2. A butcher's shop; a meat market. (countable, uncountable)
3. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as if at a slaughterhouse. (countable, uncountable)
4. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. (countable, uncountable)
5. Surgery that was botched or is asserted by the speaker to have been so. (countable, uncountable)

Plural butcheries