slaughterhouse
/ˈslɔtərˌhaʊs/
noun
- A building where animals are killed for food.
- He got a job at the local slaughterhouse after finishing school.
- New laws require slaughterhouses to be cleaner and more humane.
- The cows were taken to the slaughterhouse to be processed.
- A place or situation involving violent death or great suffering.
- The battlefield became a slaughterhouse of fallen soldiers.
- The prison was a slaughterhouse during the uprising.
- The abandoned factory was like a slaughterhouse after the attack.
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