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/bˈʊtʃərɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Butcher v. t. (past & past part. butchered; pres. part. butchering)

To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.

To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. "(Ithocles) was murdered, rather butchered."

To bungle badly; to botch; used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as, the new choir butchered the hymn.

Synonyms: mangle.

noun

Butchering n.

The business of a butcher.

The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. "That dreadful butchering of one another."

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Etymology of 'Butchering'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Butchering" Quotes from Famous Books

... dress for Elnora," answered, Wesley. He saw Mrs. Comstock's form straighten, and her face harden, so he continued hastily. "You see Elnora has been helping us at harvest time, butchering, and with unexpected visitors for years. We've made out that she's saved us a considerable sum, and as she wouldn't ever touch any pay for anything, we just went to town and got a few clothes we thought would fix her up a little for the high school. We want to get a dress done to-day mighty bad, ...

— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter

... foibles of snivelling to attest sanctity, with such a wolfish zeal to hound down devils that they hounded innocents for witchcraft? Spreading over the face of the New World, making the desert to bloom and the waste places fruitful gardens? And the reason for it all is simply this: Your butchering Indian, like your swashing cavalier, founded his right upon might; your Puritan, grim but faithful, to the outermost bounds of his tragic errors, founded ...

— Heralds of Empire - Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade • Agnes C. Laut

... was a barbarian; tonight He is quite an educated gentleman. Four thousand years ago He believed in killing and butchering little babes at the breasts of their mothers; He has reformed. Four thousand years ago He did not believe in taking prisoners of war. He said, kill the old men; mingle their blood with the white hair. ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

... the archers of the royal guard and carried off to prison. The rest of the Rouenese disappeared more rapidly than they had come. The avenues to the city were filled with fugitives as from a disastrous battle. Even the grave parliament, which the last winter had been exhibiting its august powers in butchering Huguenots by the score, beginning with the arch-heretic Augustin Marlorat, lost for a moment its self-possession, and took part in the ignominious flight. Shame, however, induced it to pause before it had gone too far, and, putting on the gravest ...

— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird

... repeated. "The command to do no manner of work is absolute and emphatic. The killing of a flea on the Sabbath is as heinous as the butchering of a bullock. The preservation of life itself is inhibited. Moses had the son of Shelomith stoned to death for gathering sticks on it. Shammai occupied six days of the week in thinking how he could best observe it. It is unlawful to wear a false tooth ...

— Mary Magdalen • Edgar Saltus

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