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abattoir

noun as in slaughterhouse

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Germany’s largest pork plant was shuttered for a month this summer after more than 1,000 workers tested positive for Covid-19, and additional abattoirs also faced temporary closures from outbreaks.

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Such an abattoir would never be permitted to continue in the United States, or indeed the developed (and white) world.

A few weeks later the monks laid siege to a Muslim-owned abattoir in Colombo to halt the slaughter of cattle.

The abattoir was being used as a distribution plant for the meat of cattle slaughtered outside the city.

A view down into the wild, Art Deco abattoir now called the 1933 Center in Shanghai.

And there is the master of our largest and goriest abattoir.

It was only a scratch and he had been knocked down like a beef in an abattoir by an unseen enemy, on whom he could not lay hands!

Have you ever seen a herd of cattle being driven to abattoir on a fine May morning?

Ay—and the abattoir is far, though its perfume is nigh; it is thrice a hundred yards from hence.

Probably it would be hung up in some abattoir, where oxen are driven in at one end, and tinned meat taken out at the other.

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On this page you'll find 4 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abattoir, such as: butchery, shambles, and stockyard.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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