abattoir
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abattoir
Look how this sophisticated appearing word has a common ancestor with battery and abate, meaning to beat down or end in some fashion.
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Re: abattoir
For whatever reason, "killing fields" comes to mind. Then as a child, I remember living in olfactory distance of the Ft Worth stockyards.
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