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Definition of "slaughterhouse" [slaugh•ter•house]

  • A place where animals are butchered. (noun)
  • A scene of massacre or carnage. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "slaughterhouse" in a sentence
  • "DAVIES (voice-over): The assault is entering a new, highly sensitive stage, but as it does so, Iraqi forces fighting alongside the Marines say in a newly captured building they found what they call a slaughterhouse used for holding hostages."
  • "I find it curious that those who criticize hunting as "cruel" assume that an abbatoir or slaughterhouse is presumably a more humane environment."
  • "But then Schlosser actually shows what a slaughterhouse is like."