Definizione monolingua

butcher

butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered)

1. (transitive) To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
2. (transitive) To kill brutally.
3. (transitive) To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

   The band at that bar really butchered ""Hotel California"".

butcher (plural butchers)

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars, Chapter I,

     He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...

2. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

   Weyler was referred to as a ""Butcher"" by yellow journalists.

3. (Cockney rhyming slang, via butchers hook) A look.
4. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).

Definizione dizionario butcher

	macellaio
	a brutal or indiscriminate killer
	a person who prepares and sells meat
	A retailer of meat.

	macellare
	To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market

	massacrare
	To kill brutally

	rovinare
	To ruin something

ammazzare

assassinare

assassino

beccaio

boia

calmare

carnefice

debilitare

demolire

macellatore

macelleria

massacratore

percorrere

placare

uccidere

Altri significati:

A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).

(transitive) To kill brutally.

(to) butcher

(transitive) To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.

(transitive) To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.

A brutal or indiscriminate killer.

A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).

(Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look.