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Meanings of slaughterhouse in English

Portuguese
matadouros
Catalan
escorxador

A place where animals are butchered for food.

matadouros
Usage of slaughterhouse in English
1
The slaughterhouse produces meat exclusively for the local market in Amazonas State.
Reuters
2
I'm goin' to go home with you when we leave the slaughterhouse.
God don't like ugly
3
Nor does she focus on the slaughterhouse aspect of our food cycle.
Wired
4
The firm has been running a slaughterhouse for the past 50 years.
The new yorker
5
At short range, they could transform a crowded deck into a slaughterhouse.
In the King's name
6
When you bring him out we can take him to the slaughterhouse.
The Irish Times
7
And don't try to drag me along with you into the slaughterhouse.
Metro 2033
8
Any horses that cannot be re-homed will be sent to the slaughterhouse.
Radio NZ
9
The militia troops stormed down a dripping staircase into the underground slaughterhouse.
Perdido Street Station
10
Manure in a hothouse, or the aftermath of sex, or a slaughterhouse.
Leviathan Wakes
11
They were herded, like cattle to a slaughterhouse, to the town's square.
Scorched Earth: A Future History of Planet Earth
12
As they entered, Auntie snorted, 'Gad, Hercules-theplace smells like a slaughterhouse.
The Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
13
Gruesome photos emerged online of donkey parts, apparently from the farm's slaughterhouse.
The Guardian
14
Fresh death smells like a cross between a slaughterhouse and an outhouse.
Circus of the Damned
15
The slaughterhouse manager told us Beauvais showed up at work, injured.
Raging Heat
16
True, most cows and calves sooner or later find themselves in the slaughterhouse.
The Guardian
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Translations for slaughterhouse
Catalan
escorxador
Slaughterhouse through the time
Slaughterhouse across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common