simple past tense and past participle of butcher

(of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might. / (by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figuratively) distorted beyond recognition.

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of butcher

comparative form of butch: more butch

(transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. / (transitive) To kill brutally. / (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). / (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer. / (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.

plural of butcher

Alternative form of butcher's (Cockney rhyming slang).

(UK) A butcher’s shop / (UK, Australia, rhyming slang) A look (short form of butcher's hook)

The act by which someone or something is butchered; a slaughter or killing.