transcription, транскрипция: [ bʊtʃə(r) ]
( butchers, butchering, butchered)
1.
A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies.
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2.
A butcher or a butcher’s is a shop where meat is sold.
N-COUNT : oft the N
3.
To butcher an animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat.
Pigs were butchered, hams were hung to dry from the ceiling.
VERB : be V-ed
4.
You can refer to someone as a butcher when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust.
Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon.
N-COUNT [ disapproval ]
5.
You can say that someone has butchered people when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust.
Guards butchered 1,350 prisoners...
= slaughter
VERB : V n [ disapproval ]