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butchering
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butchering
(encz) | butchering,zmasakrování n: Zdeněk Brož |
Butchering
(gcide) | Butchering \Butch"er*ing\, n.
1. The business of a butcher.
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2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and
needlessly.
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That dreadful butchering of one another. --Addison.
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Butchering
(gcide) | Butcher \Butch"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Butchered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Butchering.]
1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;
as, to butcher hogs.
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2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or
barbarous manner. --Macaulay.
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[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.
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3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is
damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as,
the new choir butchered the hymn.
Syn: mangle. [PJC] butcher-bird
butcher bird |
butchering
(wn) | butchering
n 1: the business of a butcher [syn: butchery, butchering] |
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