butcher

[US]/ˈbʊtʃə(r)/
[UK]/ˈbʊtʃər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. to slaughter
n. a slaughterer

Example Sentences

He is a butcher by trade.

They butchered the prisoners.

butcher a project; butchered the language.

let's take a butcher's at those bugs.

the meat went to the butcher opposite the farm.

There was a butcher's shop alongside the theatre.

A butcher needs sharp knives.

Mother went to the butcher's yesterday.

The butcher will trust us for the meat.

A rapist butchered his victim with a razor.

the film was butchered by the studio that released it.

Butcher has been scouting for United.

The tailor has butchered this suit.

Come over here and have a butcher’s at this!

He was as great a butcher as the world has been.

Real-world Examples

Certainly. When a pig is to be butchered, everybody helps.

Source: Charlotte's Web

So, to have a butcher's is cockney rhyming slang.

Source: Grandpa and Grandma's English and American Pronunciation Class

There are other prep kitchens for butchering beef and cutting seafood.

Source: Wall Street Journal

724. The wretched butcher clutched the needle and stitched it clumsily.

Source: Remember 7000 graduate exam vocabulary in 16 days.

It's good for adding flavours but you have to trust your butcher.

Source: Victoria Kitchen

How did this giant mouth on legs become the dreaded butcher of the Cretaceous?

Source: Discovery Channel: Battle of the Dinosaurs

The meat at this butcher's is always very fresh.

Source: New Concept English: Vocabulary On-the-Go, Book One.

Yes. I was. Were you at the butcher's, too?

Source: New Concept English: British English Version, Book 1 (Translation)

You're thinking of our butcher -- Ray Eastman.

Source: Modern Family Season 6

" If you can butcher a hippo, you can butcher pretty much anything, " he said.

Source: VOA Special February 2023 Collection

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