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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Butchering \Butch"er*ing\, noun
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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Butcher \Butch"er\, verb (used with an object) [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.
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
butchering
noun: the business of a butcher [syn: {butchery}]
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