present participle of butcher

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

plural of butchering

(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.

comparative form of butch: more butch

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

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

simple past tense and past participle of butcher

plural of butcher