butcher
verb/ˈbʊtʃə(r)/
/ˈbʊtʃər/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they butcher | /ˈbʊtʃə(r)/ /ˈbʊtʃər/ |
| he / she / it butchers | /ˈbʊtʃəz/ /ˈbʊtʃərz/ |
| past simple butchered | /ˈbʊtʃəd/ /ˈbʊtʃərd/ |
| past participle butchered | /ˈbʊtʃəd/ /ˈbʊtʃərd/ |
| -ing form butchering | /ˈbʊtʃərɪŋ/ /ˈbʊtʃərɪŋ/ |
- butcher somebody to kill people in a very cruel and violent way
- butcher something to kill animals and cut them up for use as meatTopics Farmingc2
- 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 OriginMiddle 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.
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