butchery vs decimation

butchery

noun
  • The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse. 

  • A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. 

  • A meat market 

  • An abattoir, a slaughterhouse. 

  • The stereotypical behaviors and accoutrements of being a butch lesbian. 

  • The butchering of meat. 

decimation

noun
  • The killing or destruction of any large portion of a population. 

  • A digital signal-processing technique for reducing the number of samples in a discrete-time signal; downsampling 

  • The creation of a new sequence comprising only every nth element of a source sequence. 

  • A tithe or the act of tithing. 

  • The killing or punishment of every tenth person, usually by lot. 

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