'Butchering' definitions:
Definition of 'butchering'
(from WordNet)
noun
The business of a butcher [syn: butchery, butchering]
Definition of 'Butchering'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- [Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
- 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] butcher-bird butcher bird
Definition of 'Butchering'
From: GCIDE
- Butchering \Butch"er*ing\, n.
- 1. The business of a butcher. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. [1913 Webster]
- That dreadful butchering of one another. --Addison. [1913 Webster]