butcher
/ˈbʊtʃər/
noun
- A person whose job is to cut up and sell meat.
- My uncle worked as a butcher for thirty years.
- We bought fresh chicken from the local butcher.
- The butcher wrapped the steak in paper for the customer.
- A person who kills or has people killed in a cruel or violent way.
- History remembers him as a butcher, not a general.
- The dictator was known as a butcher who showed no mercy.
- The film told the story of a brutal butcher who terrorized the village.
verb
- To kill and prepare animals for meat.
- They butcher the pigs early in the morning.
- He learned how to butcher a cow from his grandfather.
- The farm butchers its own chickens for the market.
- To ruin something by doing a very bad job, especially in performing or creating something.
- Don't let him cut your hair — he'll butcher it.
- I tried to fix the table, but I butchered it instead.
- The singer completely butchered the national anthem.
- To kill people in a cruel or violent way, often in large numbers.
- Soldiers butchered the prisoners without a trial.
- In the story, the villain butchers the entire village.
- The invading army butchered hundreds of innocent people.