Definition of Butcher
Butcher
butch·er
Definition/Meaning
(noun)
a person who is in the business of slaughtering animals for their meat, cutting up the flesh, and then selling it;
e.g. The butcher had a reputation for his precise knife work.
(noun)
a person who is extremely brutal and who kills people indiscriminately;
e.g. The army general was a butcher who killed the people in the territories they invaded.
(verb)
to slaughter animals and cut up their flesh to be sold as meat in a shop;
e.g. He taught his assistant how to butcher the animal.
(verb)
to kill people in a thoughtless, brutal, and ruthless manner;
e.g. The murderer was known to butcher people who had wronged him.
(verb)
to completely ruin something, often through one's incompetence, or to deliberately mess something up;
e.g. I tried not to butcher the pronunciation of her name.
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