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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or
barbarous manner. --Macaulay.
[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.
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