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1. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishBUTCHER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   BUTCHER definition: 1. a person who sells meat in a shop 2. a shop where butchers work 3. someone who murders a lot of…. Learn more.

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     BUTCHER meaning: 1. a person who sells meat in a shop 2. a...

   • Znaczenie Butcher, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     butcher definicja: 1. a person who sells meat in a shop 2. a...

   • Butcher: Arabic Translation

     BUTCHER translate: جَزَّار / قَصَّاب, يَذبَح الحيوانات....

   • Portuguese Translation

     BUTCHER translate: açougueiro, açougueira, matar, abater,...

   • Butcher in Italian

     butcher translate: macellaio, -a, macellare, macellaio,...

   • Butcher in Japanese

     BUTCHER translate: 肉屋, （食肉用に動物）を解体する, 肉屋（にくや）. Learn more in...

   • Butcher in Russian

     BUTCHER translate: мясник , безжалостно убивать ,...

   • Butcher in Spanish

     BUTCHER translate: carnicero, carnicera, despiezar,...

2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › butcherButcher Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

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   The meaning of BUTCHER is a person who slaughters animals or dresses their flesh. How to use butcher in a sentence. ... Verb. 1562, in the meaning defined at sense 1.

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4. www.oed.com › dictionary › butcher_vbutcher, v. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...

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   The earliest known use of the verb butcher is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for butcher is from 1562, in Complaint of Churche. It is also recorded as a noun from the Middle English period (1150—1500). butcher is formed within English, by conversion. Etymons: butcher n.

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   Your grandmother might go to the butcher once a week to buy pork chops. ... the word is also used to mean a cruel, ruthless murderer. ... verb. make a mess of ...

6. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › definitionbutcher verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage ...

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   butcher something (especially North American English) to make something less good or successful by doing it very badly The script was good, but those guys butchered it. Word Origin Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier , from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as the verb buck .

7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishBUTCHER definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   7 meanings: 1. a retailer of meat 2. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market 3. an indiscriminate or brutal murderer.... Click for more definitions.

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   What is a butcher verb?

   • Definition of butcher verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary butcher somebody to kill people in a very cruel and violent way butcher something to kill animals and cut them up for use as meat Topics Farming c2 butcher something (especially North American English) to make something less good or successful by doing it very badly

   butcher verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage notes

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   How do you describe a butcher in a sentence?

   • 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. 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.

   BUTCHER definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

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   Where does the word 'butcher's' come from?

   • Butcher's comes here from butcher's hook in the rhyming slang for ‘look’. ( British English, slang) have a look at something: Come over here and have a butcher’s at this!

   Butcher - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

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   What does a butcher do?

   • The butcher hacked off a large chunk of meat. The butcher prepared a rack of pork. He raises pigs and butchers his own meat. This is where farmers brought their livestock to be butchered. The truck was transporting freshly butchered chickens. He butchered thousands of people. Unarmed civilians are being butchered by the occupying forces.

   BUTCHER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

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   butchers; butchered; butchering. Britannica Dictionary definition of BUTCHER. [+ object] 1. : to kill (an animal) and prepare its meat for sale. They've hired someone to butcher the hogs. 2. : to kill (people or animals) in a brutal and cruel way. Many innocent people were butchered under his regime.