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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Butchering \Butch"er*ing\, n. 1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. --Addison. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: butchering n : the business of a butcher [syn: {butchery}]
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