butchering

/booch-er/US // ˈbʊtʃ ər //UK // (ˈbʊtʃə) //

屠宰,屠宰业,宰杀,屠宰加工

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- : a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
- : a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder.
- : a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to slaughter or dress for market.
- : to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
- : to bungle; botch: to butcher a job.

nounmeat killer, seller

Synonyms

verbslay and prepare animal for meat

Bill, full name William Poole, was a real life butcher, skilled with knives and raised in the art of street fighting.
They could fix things and grow things and work with animals and do medical things and butcher pigs and put up preserves.
His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.
It is sold by the pound, cut to order, and presented not on a plate but on a sheet of butcher paper.
One veteran tiger butcher, who was turned into the authorities, was reported to have killed more than ten tigers since 2007.
A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.
A butcher's boy, running against a gentleman with his tray, made him exclaim, "The deuce take the tray!"
She's too old for beef, or the butcher would; and she makes out to get her livin' without botherin' nobody much.
For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.
A butcher scalds a hog to make the hair come off more easily (Bell).

/booch-er/US // ˈbʊtʃ ər //UK // (ˈbʊtʃə) //

屠宰,屠宰业,宰杀,屠宰加工

n.名词 noun

1
- : a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
- : a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
- : a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder.
- : a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc.

v.有主动词 verb

1
- : to slaughter or dress for market.
- : to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
- : to bungle; botch: to butcher a job.

nounmeat killer, seller

Synonyms

verbslay and prepare animal for meat

Bill, full name William Poole, was a real life butcher, skilled with knives and raised in the art of street fighting.
They could fix things and grow things and work with animals and do medical things and butcher pigs and put up preserves.
His family ran a butcher shop in a part of town so tough that their specialty was broken leg of lamb.
It is sold by the pound, cut to order, and presented not on a plate but on a sheet of butcher paper.
One veteran tiger butcher, who was turned into the authorities, was reported to have killed more than ten tigers since 2007.
A was an Archer, who shot at a frog; B was a Butcher, and had a great dog.
A butcher's boy, running against a gentleman with his tray, made him exclaim, "The deuce take the tray!"
She's too old for beef, or the butcher would; and she makes out to get her livin' without botherin' nobody much.
For all his vaunted scorn of being a butcher at a price, now that he heard the price he seemed not half so scornful.
A butcher scalds a hog to make the hair come off more easily (Bell).