abattoirnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈæb.ə.twɑːr/us/ˈæb.ə.twɑːr/mainly UK US usually slaughterhousea place where animals are killed for their meat
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Killing
- assisted suicide
- commit suicide idiom
- decimation
- do for sb/sth
- drown
- early
- electrocute
- end it (all) idiom
- fatal
- finish
- hara-kiri
- immolate
- killer
- life-threatening
- malignant
- mortally
- shooting
- slaughterhouse
- suicide
- terminal
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Examples from literature
- He was out at the abattoirs, where after a three-mile drive we obtained him.
- In the outskirts of Paris were great abattoirs, or slaughter-pens.