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UK
/bˈʊtʃɐ/
]
[ US /ˈbʊtʃɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈbʊtʃɝ/ ]
VERB
-
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
NOUN
- a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
- someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- a retailer of meat
How To Use butcher In A Sentence
- They butchered the film, hacking and splicing it, grinding their heels into Sergio's soul.
- Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- Or I’d order a cup of roasted corn topped with sour cream and salsa at a stand outside of Fiesta followed by a tamale from a Mexican butcher and a cheeseburger from Whataburger. Home sweet (and savory) home! | Homesick Texan
- Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
- A reviewer butchers an original text, taking that which seems necessary to get the text to say what must be said, and excising the rest.
- You can ask your butcher to mince the thigh meat or use a domestic food grinder. Times, Sunday Times
- The consumer is advised to check this with the butcher to determine if the meat has been koshered.
- A butcher stands in the tail of his pigboat like a Venetian gondolier; a pig's head is nailed to the prow, the rest of the carcass laid out in the anatomically correct order down the length of the boat. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
- The slaughter and butchery of 200 cattle and the consumption of 40,000 kilos of beef, even if spread over a year or two, suggest the participation of many communities, perhaps from a whole clan or tribe.
- Nottingham Crown Court heard that staff, in threadbare butchers' aprons, worked into the early hours to fillet carcasses which had been condemned as unfit for human consumption.