Definition of butcher in English:

butcher

nounˈbʊtʃəˈbʊtʃər

1A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
Example sentencesExamples
- I understand that a television programme had set out to expose the ‘black economy’ in selling meat to butchers and restaurants that had been illegally slaughtered.
- Yet another regulation about to impact on the local meat sector is a prohibition of cutting meat for wholesale in butchers ' shops.
- People and carts ran throughout the dusty dirt streets and animals being traded or sold to butchers or other farmers crowded the path.
- Fat stock are animals that are sold to butchers for meat
- We decided to sell direct to the customer in a shop, which would incorporate a traditional butcher's shop with cutting room and cold store.
- There were vendors selling fruits and vegetables, butchers selling meats, tradesmen selling expensive cloths, and so on.
- Many groceries, butchers and cheese shops can be found along St-Laurent a few blocks south of Jean-Talon, with plenty of places to stop for an espresso along the way.
- Over the past two months, our selectors have been chopping and changing the side more in the manner of a butcher in a meat shop rather than making changes with any rationale behind them.
- Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is, the non-organ meats that are not suitable for stews and kebabs.
- Health authorities traced the bacterial infection E.coli 0157 to a butcher's shop selling cooked meat pies.
- From August 1, butchers and other meat traders will no longer be able to send surplus or unfit meat to be disposed of at landfill rubbish sites.
- One day at the butcher shop, the butcher's son picks on them.
- The recent success of farmers selling meat direct to the public is being threatened by legislation to stop butchers cutting meat for sale anywhere but in their own shops.
- Another case for their records, another freak they can ogle and prod like a piece of meat in a butcher's shop.
- And there was a furrier and a butcher and a shop selling fine wines.
- A family-run butcher and fishmonger shop in Witham is celebrating 50 years of trading.
- Ms Milburn said the raid had come about because of a tip-off from Bradford Council that they had seized meat at a Keighley butcher's shop which had been slaughtered at the farm.
- Grocery stores did not sell meat, and the butchers did not usually have a late night.
- It's now almost seven years since the last huge blaze when flames swept through historic wooden framed High Street buildings with the butcher's shop and betting office on the ground floor.
- I want the butcher's shops, greengrocers and bakers and so forth that have now all moved to Clifton Moor and Monks Cross.
Synonyms
meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader
1. 1.1 A person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food.
  a pork butcher
  Example sentencesExamples
  No one is in a better position to reassure consumers about any doubts they may have about the origin and quality of food than a butcher.
  Surely a woman in the 1950's would be likely to buy one already slaughtered from a butcher.
  As such, only those butchers who slaughter their own animals can produce it.
  After slaughtering the animal, the butcher gave the children a close-up look at the heart, tendons and other internal organs of the cow.
  A while later we were attacked by butchers from the nearby slaughterhouse.
  His dad was a butcher and slaughterman who was often out of work in the depression, and times were hard.
  It appeared to him that almost everyone was a butcher and when an animal was slaughtered, everything was used down to the last drop of blood.
  The first offence committed by the butcher was to slaughter an animal at a place not so designated.
  Winders had offered a service, allowing butchers to buy from individual farmers, get the animals slaughtered at Ulverston and delivered direct to them.
  By Islamic custom, butchers must slaughter animals by cutting the throat.
  The story began on Sunday night when a butcher tried to slaughter the buffalo.
  Residents drove the cow into the open ground between two houses, where it was secured by police and then slaughtered by a butcher from the slaughter house.
  Opinions on everything from the psyche of purchasing to pork butchers are shot through the narrative.
  After almost 30 years of working six days a week, Otley pork butchers David and Barbara Brown are looking forward to a day off.
  The refinery, built in 1998, processes food waste and animal by-products collected from slaughterhouses, butchers and supermarkets.
  A son of Patrick and Gabrielle O'Rourke, he has been a butcher in the Food Experience in Sligo for the past six years.
  In a statement read by West Yorkshire Coroner David Hinchliff, his son told how his father had left school at 14 and began work as a butcher and slaughterman in Leeds.
  He also refused to compromise on quality and that meant rejecting parts of the animals that some butchers put into their products.
  To be certified as halal an animal must be slaughtered by a Muslim butcher who recites a prayer over the animal and then quickly slits its throat.
  There have been anti-government protests outside the Senate and the Agricultural Ministry, and strikes by butchers and slaughterhouses.
  Synonyms
  meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader
2. 1.2 A person who kills people indiscriminately or brutally.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Here, our victims are merely statistics whereas bombers are called soldiers instead of terrorists, murderers, butchers…
  With a galactic reputation for being butchers, and ravenous executioners, the Rangers weren't known for leaving anyone alive after an operation.
  It immediately made me think of serial killers and butchers.
  I figure that if people can wear a T-shirt that portrays a ruthless butcher that terrorized my country of birth as a hero, then I can wear a shirt proclaiming my views.
  No one can deny that Macbeth is a ruthless butcher and bloody fiend.
  And all it does is, you know, reinvent his image as a murderer and as a butcher, and it reminds people of what people believe he did.
  He is the godfather of the settlement movement, a butcher and the master of a brutal and relentless occupation.
  Up along the bay still seagulling like a mix of Welsh and Irish, bible black and pudding with fingers in his mouth - maybe his own this time, the slavering butcher, the killer in some eyes.
  ‘He is a butcher, he tortures people, kills them personally,’ Mr Rumsfeld said in Atlanta, Georgia.
  I told him they were a bunch of murdering butchers and he didn't like that.
  Just as providence protects drunks and fools, so it also spares the pseuds who make excuses for the butchers who have killed their neighbours.
  Their people will have an opportunity for democracy and freedom instead of being under the regime of this murderous butcher and his family.
  Synonyms
  murderer, mass murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin, serial killer, homicidal maniac, destroyer, terminator, liquidator
  literary slayer
  dated cut-throat, homicide
2North American informal A person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre.

verbˈbʊtʃəˈbʊtʃər

[with object]

1Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
Example sentencesExamples
- Although she observed no live cattle being butchered, she concluded that the plant's older-style equipment was ‘overloaded.’
- Each year, Old Sturbridge Village butchers a pig in early December.
- Whitewater's grandmother, who is the matriarch, decides which sheep are butchered and when.
- I'm not familiar with the book, though I've read that the film version butchered the story a bit, cutting out major plot points and character development.
- I've even seen her helping to butcher cattle, much to the surprise of the soldiers.
- I recently stayed with some Bedouin tribes in Jordan, where the women did the bread-making while the men slaughtered and butchered the goat for us.
- Then he dragged out a small knife and began cleanly butchering the deer.
- Among this group were men who could do anything from butchering a cow to fixing a motor with a piece of wire or operating on a casualty with a jackknife.
- One girl had watched her cousin butcher a sheep before and she thought we should get a whole animal.
- Other neighbors have found migrants butchering their newborn calves, opening water lines to drink - leaving them flowing - and stealing their trucks.
- The ponies would be butchered in foreign slaughterhouses and could end up on menus in countries such as France, where the meat is a delicacy.
- Women do the daily cooking, while men butcher pigs for feasts.
- For example, the team recovered six larger stones known as cores, from which flint tools used for butchering the elephant were chipped.
- But others were systematically butchered and prepared for food.
- The early humans butchered the elephant at the kill site and ate the meat raw, the archaeologists add.
- It was butchered by the studio and emerged shorn of 40 minutes in 1980.
- A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of BSE-will make no difference, either.
- The researchers found horse skulls and backbones in the villages, indicating that horses were butchered on site.
- Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
- Therefore, last spring my husband spent several days butchering our winter rabbits.
- Researchers believe that Ebola is most commonly transmitted when people butcher infected apes for food.
- Also, Mr Clarke can butcher a beast for his shop on a wooden block behind the counter.
Synonyms
slaughter, cut up, carve up, slice up, joint, prepare, dress
1. 1.1 Kill (a person or people) indiscriminately or brutally.
  they rounded up and butchered 250 people
  Example sentencesExamples
  Outside the gates, the extremists are butchering the minority while the west twiddles its thumbs and debates the distinction between ‘genocide’ and ‘acts of genocide’.
  These three were flying over the village in their helicopter and saw the soldiers butchering the inhabitants with no ‘enemy’ in sight.
  What could their military learn now that it didn't learn during the 1970s and 80s when military ties were very open and they were butchering ethnic minorities?
  They'd be butchered, slaughtered like sheep before wave after wave of fierce counterattack.
  In 19 th-century Malaya young men ran amok butchering strangers with a sword, usually after suffering a massive blow to their self-esteem or prestige.
  This is a war that cannot be won by the military without butchering thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of their citizens.
  A botched move to a market economy and corrupt spending of offshore oil revenue were followed by a succession of civil wars in which rebel and government forces raped and butchered civilians.
  The Glencoe massacre was an infamous episode in Scottish history when members of the MacDonald clan were butchered by government soldiers, led by a rival clan chief Robert Campbell.
  A civilized species does not kill, maim, butcher, blow up, whatever you want to call it.
  They still exist in a time where an enemy is fit only to be butchered like an animal.
  The soldiers butchered scores of policemen and their families in a most horrific manner, then left their bodies to rot in the basement of a courthouse.
  After that they started butchering the Miskito Indians of the Atlantic coast who refused the communists attempt to collectivize their fishing fleet.
  Previous tapes did show hooded men butchering their captives.
  So, you murder, kill, and butcher, she thought cruelly, so what are you doing here in an office full of paperwork?
  Synonyms
  massacre, murder, slaughter, kill, put to death, dispatch, dispose of, destroy, exterminate, liquidate, eliminate, terminate, assassinate, put to the sword, cut down, cut to pieces
  literary slay
2. 1.2 Ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence.
  the film was butchered by the studio that released it
  Example sentencesExamples
  This time Fumento gets the issue date of the article correct, but he incomprehensibly butchers the quote.
  At least when he butchers a word he does it by accident.
  He would certainly sacrifice his own life, knowing that he had butchered thousands of Americans.
  He accused the minister's office of butchering his education policy which he called a third way between publicly funded and fee paying higher education.
  A leading academic has launched a vicious attack on the country's powerful propaganda department, claiming it has butchered freedom of speech and protects corrupt officials.
  She seems to be out of her mind, butchering this beautiful song.
  I suspect it works because it's both written and directed by one person so it avoided the usual problem of a moderately good script being butchered by the director.
  White doesn't say so, but it seems safe to assume that they deliberately butchered it.
  Certainly life is not all negative, but I read a quote from Thomas Hardy, and I know I'm butchering it, but he basically said that you can't really hope to remedy the dark side of life until you first have looked at it.
  A reviewer butchers an original text, taking that which seems necessary to get the text to say what must be said, and excising the rest.
  If you had an incompetent employee who was costing you money and butchering important relationships, wouldn't you want to know?
  There was neither ease nor grace as I butchered the edges of the tin lid; deep gouges of torn aluminium and the screech of metal on metal as I twisted the tin round in a stuttered, clumsy motion.
  Let me state that this is my interpretation; so the best ideas came from the professor, and I may have butchered them here and that will be completely my fault.
  And why should a studio butcher its own work when those abusing it freely admit that, no, they haven't even seen the movie?
  He challenged his opponent's mendacity (and badly butchered a response on malpractice reform).
  So who butchers the French language worse, the English or Germans?
  I had to spend twice as long butchering my work as I did writing it in the first place!
  Oh yes, I hate this singer for butchering this song.
  Synonyms
  spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, mangle, cut about, mess up, make a mess of, wreck
  informal murder, make a hash of, muck up, screw up, louse up

Phrases

have (or take) a butcher's

informal Have a look.
Example sentencesExamples
- Anders suggests that I ‘have a butcher's’ at this page, which glosses diamond geezer as ‘A really wonderful man, helpful and reliable; a gem of a man.’
- He kicks off at Kelvingrove in Glasgow where he will take a butcher's at Salvador Dali's St John Of The Cross.
- ‘I think I might just mosey on down and take a butcher's,’ the PFY says, exiting stage left.
- In the case of Peter Sarstedt, music and lyrics gave the impression that the singer intended to crack the listener over the head with a lump hammer and have a butcher's inside.
- We don't usually write about boozers, but being ex-pats we are always intrigued by foreign attempts at British-style pubs, so Bob and I popped into the recently established Dog & Bone down Lambton Quay to have a butcher's.
- Have a butchers at the first team squad and read each players profile.
- Meanwhile, Sharky's takes a butcher's at the P3 1.13GHz CPU.
- So have a butchers at that if nothing else.
Synonyms
glance, gaze, stare, gape, peer, fix one's gaze, focus

Origin

Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc 'he-goat', probably of the same ultimate origin as buck¹.

The origin of butcher may tell us something about the diet of early Europeans. It goes back to a French boc meaning ‘male goat’ that is probably related to buck ‘male deer’. A butcher was originally more a slaughterman than a salesman, and the word very quickly came to refer to a person responsible for the slaughter of many people, a brutal murderer. See also shambles. Butch [1940s] for ‘masculine’ may be a shortening of the word. In the phrase to have a butcher's, ‘to have a look’, butcher's is short for butcher's hook, rhyming slang for ‘a look’. The first known printed example dates from the 1930s.

Definition of butcher in US English:

butcher

nounˈbo͝oCHərˈbʊtʃər

1A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop.
Example sentencesExamples
- Yet another regulation about to impact on the local meat sector is a prohibition of cutting meat for wholesale in butchers ' shops.
- A family-run butcher and fishmonger shop in Witham is celebrating 50 years of trading.
- And there was a furrier and a butcher and a shop selling fine wines.
- Many groceries, butchers and cheese shops can be found along St-Laurent a few blocks south of Jean-Talon, with plenty of places to stop for an espresso along the way.
- The recent success of farmers selling meat direct to the public is being threatened by legislation to stop butchers cutting meat for sale anywhere but in their own shops.
- Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is, the non-organ meats that are not suitable for stews and kebabs.
- Health authorities traced the bacterial infection E.coli 0157 to a butcher's shop selling cooked meat pies.
- It's now almost seven years since the last huge blaze when flames swept through historic wooden framed High Street buildings with the butcher's shop and betting office on the ground floor.
- From August 1, butchers and other meat traders will no longer be able to send surplus or unfit meat to be disposed of at landfill rubbish sites.
- One day at the butcher shop, the butcher's son picks on them.
- Grocery stores did not sell meat, and the butchers did not usually have a late night.
- We decided to sell direct to the customer in a shop, which would incorporate a traditional butcher's shop with cutting room and cold store.
- People and carts ran throughout the dusty dirt streets and animals being traded or sold to butchers or other farmers crowded the path.
- Ms Milburn said the raid had come about because of a tip-off from Bradford Council that they had seized meat at a Keighley butcher's shop which had been slaughtered at the farm.
- Another case for their records, another freak they can ogle and prod like a piece of meat in a butcher's shop.
- I want the butcher's shops, greengrocers and bakers and so forth that have now all moved to Clifton Moor and Monks Cross.
- Over the past two months, our selectors have been chopping and changing the side more in the manner of a butcher in a meat shop rather than making changes with any rationale behind them.
- I understand that a television programme had set out to expose the ‘black economy’ in selling meat to butchers and restaurants that had been illegally slaughtered.
- There were vendors selling fruits and vegetables, butchers selling meats, tradesmen selling expensive cloths, and so on.
- Fat stock are animals that are sold to butchers for meat
Synonyms
meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader
1. 1.1 A person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food.
  a pork butcher
  Example sentencesExamples
  Residents drove the cow into the open ground between two houses, where it was secured by police and then slaughtered by a butcher from the slaughter house.
  In a statement read by West Yorkshire Coroner David Hinchliff, his son told how his father had left school at 14 and began work as a butcher and slaughterman in Leeds.
  Winders had offered a service, allowing butchers to buy from individual farmers, get the animals slaughtered at Ulverston and delivered direct to them.
  By Islamic custom, butchers must slaughter animals by cutting the throat.
  No one is in a better position to reassure consumers about any doubts they may have about the origin and quality of food than a butcher.
  The story began on Sunday night when a butcher tried to slaughter the buffalo.
  There have been anti-government protests outside the Senate and the Agricultural Ministry, and strikes by butchers and slaughterhouses.
  The first offence committed by the butcher was to slaughter an animal at a place not so designated.
  As such, only those butchers who slaughter their own animals can produce it.
  After slaughtering the animal, the butcher gave the children a close-up look at the heart, tendons and other internal organs of the cow.
  A while later we were attacked by butchers from the nearby slaughterhouse.
  His dad was a butcher and slaughterman who was often out of work in the depression, and times were hard.
  Surely a woman in the 1950's would be likely to buy one already slaughtered from a butcher.
  After almost 30 years of working six days a week, Otley pork butchers David and Barbara Brown are looking forward to a day off.
  It appeared to him that almost everyone was a butcher and when an animal was slaughtered, everything was used down to the last drop of blood.
  The refinery, built in 1998, processes food waste and animal by-products collected from slaughterhouses, butchers and supermarkets.
  He also refused to compromise on quality and that meant rejecting parts of the animals that some butchers put into their products.
  To be certified as halal an animal must be slaughtered by a Muslim butcher who recites a prayer over the animal and then quickly slits its throat.
  A son of Patrick and Gabrielle O'Rourke, he has been a butcher in the Food Experience in Sligo for the past six years.
  Opinions on everything from the psyche of purchasing to pork butchers are shot through the narrative.
  Synonyms
  meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader
2. 1.2 A person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally.
  a callous butcher of men
  Example sentencesExamples
  He is the godfather of the settlement movement, a butcher and the master of a brutal and relentless occupation.
  It immediately made me think of serial killers and butchers.
  ‘He is a butcher, he tortures people, kills them personally,’ Mr Rumsfeld said in Atlanta, Georgia.
  I figure that if people can wear a T-shirt that portrays a ruthless butcher that terrorized my country of birth as a hero, then I can wear a shirt proclaiming my views.
  No one can deny that Macbeth is a ruthless butcher and bloody fiend.
  Just as providence protects drunks and fools, so it also spares the pseuds who make excuses for the butchers who have killed their neighbours.
  Here, our victims are merely statistics whereas bombers are called soldiers instead of terrorists, murderers, butchers…
  Up along the bay still seagulling like a mix of Welsh and Irish, bible black and pudding with fingers in his mouth - maybe his own this time, the slavering butcher, the killer in some eyes.
  With a galactic reputation for being butchers, and ravenous executioners, the Rangers weren't known for leaving anyone alive after an operation.
  And all it does is, you know, reinvent his image as a murderer and as a butcher, and it reminds people of what people believe he did.
  Their people will have an opportunity for democracy and freedom instead of being under the regime of this murderous butcher and his family.
  I told him they were a bunch of murdering butchers and he didn't like that.
  Synonyms
  murderer, mass murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin, serial killer, homicidal maniac, destroyer, terminator, liquidator
2North American informal A person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a stadium or theater.

verbˈbo͝oCHərˈbʊtʃər

[with object]

1Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food.
the meat will be butchered for the local market
Example sentencesExamples
- Therefore, last spring my husband spent several days butchering our winter rabbits.
- Each year, Old Sturbridge Village butchers a pig in early December.
- I'm not familiar with the book, though I've read that the film version butchered the story a bit, cutting out major plot points and character development.
- Whitewater's grandmother, who is the matriarch, decides which sheep are butchered and when.
- I recently stayed with some Bedouin tribes in Jordan, where the women did the bread-making while the men slaughtered and butchered the goat for us.
- For example, the team recovered six larger stones known as cores, from which flint tools used for butchering the elephant were chipped.
- The researchers found horse skulls and backbones in the villages, indicating that horses were butchered on site.
- A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of BSE-will make no difference, either.
- Then he dragged out a small knife and began cleanly butchering the deer.
- Among this group were men who could do anything from butchering a cow to fixing a motor with a piece of wire or operating on a casualty with a jackknife.
- Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown.
- The ponies would be butchered in foreign slaughterhouses and could end up on menus in countries such as France, where the meat is a delicacy.
- I've even seen her helping to butcher cattle, much to the surprise of the soldiers.
- The early humans butchered the elephant at the kill site and ate the meat raw, the archaeologists add.
- Other neighbors have found migrants butchering their newborn calves, opening water lines to drink - leaving them flowing - and stealing their trucks.
- It was butchered by the studio and emerged shorn of 40 minutes in 1980.
- Women do the daily cooking, while men butcher pigs for feasts.
- Also, Mr Clarke can butcher a beast for his shop on a wooden block behind the counter.
- One girl had watched her cousin butcher a sheep before and she thought we should get a whole animal.
- Although she observed no live cattle being butchered, she concluded that the plant's older-style equipment was ‘overloaded.’
- Researchers believe that Ebola is most commonly transmitted when people butcher infected apes for food.
- But others were systematically butchered and prepared for food.
Synonyms
slaughter, cut up, carve up, slice up, joint, prepare, dress
1. 1.1 Kill (someone) brutally.
  they butchered 250 people
  Example sentencesExamples
  They still exist in a time where an enemy is fit only to be butchered like an animal.
  So, you murder, kill, and butcher, she thought cruelly, so what are you doing here in an office full of paperwork?
  A botched move to a market economy and corrupt spending of offshore oil revenue were followed by a succession of civil wars in which rebel and government forces raped and butchered civilians.
  Outside the gates, the extremists are butchering the minority while the west twiddles its thumbs and debates the distinction between ‘genocide’ and ‘acts of genocide’.
  In 19 th-century Malaya young men ran amok butchering strangers with a sword, usually after suffering a massive blow to their self-esteem or prestige.
  A civilized species does not kill, maim, butcher, blow up, whatever you want to call it.
  This is a war that cannot be won by the military without butchering thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of their citizens.
  These three were flying over the village in their helicopter and saw the soldiers butchering the inhabitants with no ‘enemy’ in sight.
  Previous tapes did show hooded men butchering their captives.
  The Glencoe massacre was an infamous episode in Scottish history when members of the MacDonald clan were butchered by government soldiers, led by a rival clan chief Robert Campbell.
  The soldiers butchered scores of policemen and their families in a most horrific manner, then left their bodies to rot in the basement of a courthouse.
  They'd be butchered, slaughtered like sheep before wave after wave of fierce counterattack.
  What could their military learn now that it didn't learn during the 1970s and 80s when military ties were very open and they were butchering ethnic minorities?
  After that they started butchering the Miskito Indians of the Atlantic coast who refused the communists attempt to collectivize their fishing fleet.
  Synonyms
  massacre, murder, slaughter, kill, put to death, dispatch, dispose of, destroy, exterminate, liquidate, eliminate, terminate, assassinate, put to the sword, cut down, cut to pieces
2. 1.2 Ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence.
  the film was butchered by the studio that released it
  Example sentencesExamples
  White doesn't say so, but it seems safe to assume that they deliberately butchered it.
  He accused the minister's office of butchering his education policy which he called a third way between publicly funded and fee paying higher education.
  He would certainly sacrifice his own life, knowing that he had butchered thousands of Americans.
  So who butchers the French language worse, the English or Germans?
  Let me state that this is my interpretation; so the best ideas came from the professor, and I may have butchered them here and that will be completely my fault.
  She seems to be out of her mind, butchering this beautiful song.
  I suspect it works because it's both written and directed by one person so it avoided the usual problem of a moderately good script being butchered by the director.
  And why should a studio butcher its own work when those abusing it freely admit that, no, they haven't even seen the movie?
  He challenged his opponent's mendacity (and badly butchered a response on malpractice reform).
  At least when he butchers a word he does it by accident.
  This time Fumento gets the issue date of the article correct, but he incomprehensibly butchers the quote.
  There was neither ease nor grace as I butchered the edges of the tin lid; deep gouges of torn aluminium and the screech of metal on metal as I twisted the tin round in a stuttered, clumsy motion.
  If you had an incompetent employee who was costing you money and butchering important relationships, wouldn't you want to know?
  A leading academic has launched a vicious attack on the country's powerful propaganda department, claiming it has butchered freedom of speech and protects corrupt officials.
  A reviewer butchers an original text, taking that which seems necessary to get the text to say what must be said, and excising the rest.
  Oh yes, I hate this singer for butchering this song.
  Certainly life is not all negative, but I read a quote from Thomas Hardy, and I know I'm butchering it, but he basically said that you can't really hope to remedy the dark side of life until you first have looked at it.
  I had to spend twice as long butchering my work as I did writing it in the first place!
  Synonyms
  spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, mangle, cut about, mess up, make a mess of, wreck

Origin

Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck.

单词	butcher
释义	Definition of butcher in English: butcher nounˈbʊtʃəˈbʊtʃər 1A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. Example sentencesExamples I understand that a television programme had set out to expose the ‘black economy’ in selling meat to butchers and restaurants that had been illegally slaughtered. Yet another regulation about to impact on the local meat sector is a prohibition of cutting meat for wholesale in butchers ' shops. People and carts ran throughout the dusty dirt streets and animals being traded or sold to butchers or other farmers crowded the path. Fat stock are animals that are sold to butchers for meat We decided to sell direct to the customer in a shop, which would incorporate a traditional butcher's shop with cutting room and cold store. There were vendors selling fruits and vegetables, butchers selling meats, tradesmen selling expensive cloths, and so on. Many groceries, butchers and cheese shops can be found along St-Laurent a few blocks south of Jean-Talon, with plenty of places to stop for an espresso along the way. Over the past two months, our selectors have been chopping and changing the side more in the manner of a butcher in a meat shop rather than making changes with any rationale behind them. Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is, the non-organ meats that are not suitable for stews and kebabs. Health authorities traced the bacterial infection E.coli 0157 to a butcher's shop selling cooked meat pies. From August 1, butchers and other meat traders will no longer be able to send surplus or unfit meat to be disposed of at landfill rubbish sites. One day at the butcher shop, the butcher's son picks on them. The recent success of farmers selling meat direct to the public is being threatened by legislation to stop butchers cutting meat for sale anywhere but in their own shops. Another case for their records, another freak they can ogle and prod like a piece of meat in a butcher's shop. And there was a furrier and a butcher and a shop selling fine wines. A family-run butcher and fishmonger shop in Witham is celebrating 50 years of trading. Ms Milburn said the raid had come about because of a tip-off from Bradford Council that they had seized meat at a Keighley butcher's shop which had been slaughtered at the farm. Grocery stores did not sell meat, and the butchers did not usually have a late night. It's now almost seven years since the last huge blaze when flames swept through historic wooden framed High Street buildings with the butcher's shop and betting office on the ground floor. I want the butcher's shops, greengrocers and bakers and so forth that have now all moved to Clifton Moor and Monks Cross. Synonyms meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader 1.1 A person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food. a pork butcher Example sentencesExamples No one is in a better position to reassure consumers about any doubts they may have about the origin and quality of food than a butcher. Surely a woman in the 1950's would be likely to buy one already slaughtered from a butcher. As such, only those butchers who slaughter their own animals can produce it. After slaughtering the animal, the butcher gave the children a close-up look at the heart, tendons and other internal organs of the cow. A while later we were attacked by butchers from the nearby slaughterhouse. His dad was a butcher and slaughterman who was often out of work in the depression, and times were hard. It appeared to him that almost everyone was a butcher and when an animal was slaughtered, everything was used down to the last drop of blood. The first offence committed by the butcher was to slaughter an animal at a place not so designated. Winders had offered a service, allowing butchers to buy from individual farmers, get the animals slaughtered at Ulverston and delivered direct to them. By Islamic custom, butchers must slaughter animals by cutting the throat. The story began on Sunday night when a butcher tried to slaughter the buffalo. Residents drove the cow into the open ground between two houses, where it was secured by police and then slaughtered by a butcher from the slaughter house. Opinions on everything from the psyche of purchasing to pork butchers are shot through the narrative. After almost 30 years of working six days a week, Otley pork butchers David and Barbara Brown are looking forward to a day off. The refinery, built in 1998, processes food waste and animal by-products collected from slaughterhouses, butchers and supermarkets. A son of Patrick and Gabrielle O'Rourke, he has been a butcher in the Food Experience in Sligo for the past six years. In a statement read by West Yorkshire Coroner David Hinchliff, his son told how his father had left school at 14 and began work as a butcher and slaughterman in Leeds. He also refused to compromise on quality and that meant rejecting parts of the animals that some butchers put into their products. To be certified as halal an animal must be slaughtered by a Muslim butcher who recites a prayer over the animal and then quickly slits its throat. There have been anti-government protests outside the Senate and the Agricultural Ministry, and strikes by butchers and slaughterhouses. Synonyms meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader 1.2 A person who kills people indiscriminately or brutally. Example sentencesExamples Here, our victims are merely statistics whereas bombers are called soldiers instead of terrorists, murderers, butchers… With a galactic reputation for being butchers, and ravenous executioners, the Rangers weren't known for leaving anyone alive after an operation. It immediately made me think of serial killers and butchers. I figure that if people can wear a T-shirt that portrays a ruthless butcher that terrorized my country of birth as a hero, then I can wear a shirt proclaiming my views. No one can deny that Macbeth is a ruthless butcher and bloody fiend. And all it does is, you know, reinvent his image as a murderer and as a butcher, and it reminds people of what people believe he did. He is the godfather of the settlement movement, a butcher and the master of a brutal and relentless occupation. Up along the bay still seagulling like a mix of Welsh and Irish, bible black and pudding with fingers in his mouth - maybe his own this time, the slavering butcher, the killer in some eyes. ‘He is a butcher, he tortures people, kills them personally,’ Mr Rumsfeld said in Atlanta, Georgia. I told him they were a bunch of murdering butchers and he didn't like that. Just as providence protects drunks and fools, so it also spares the pseuds who make excuses for the butchers who have killed their neighbours. Their people will have an opportunity for democracy and freedom instead of being under the regime of this murderous butcher and his family. Synonyms murderer, mass murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin, serial killer, homicidal maniac, destroyer, terminator, liquidator literary slayer dated cut-throat, homicide 2North American informal A person selling refreshments, newspapers, etc. on a train or in a theatre. verbˈbʊtʃəˈbʊtʃər [with object] 1Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. Example sentencesExamples Although she observed no live cattle being butchered, she concluded that the plant's older-style equipment was ‘overloaded.’ Each year, Old Sturbridge Village butchers a pig in early December. Whitewater's grandmother, who is the matriarch, decides which sheep are butchered and when. I'm not familiar with the book, though I've read that the film version butchered the story a bit, cutting out major plot points and character development. I've even seen her helping to butcher cattle, much to the surprise of the soldiers. I recently stayed with some Bedouin tribes in Jordan, where the women did the bread-making while the men slaughtered and butchered the goat for us. Then he dragged out a small knife and began cleanly butchering the deer. Among this group were men who could do anything from butchering a cow to fixing a motor with a piece of wire or operating on a casualty with a jackknife. One girl had watched her cousin butcher a sheep before and she thought we should get a whole animal. Other neighbors have found migrants butchering their newborn calves, opening water lines to drink - leaving them flowing - and stealing their trucks. The ponies would be butchered in foreign slaughterhouses and could end up on menus in countries such as France, where the meat is a delicacy. Women do the daily cooking, while men butcher pigs for feasts. For example, the team recovered six larger stones known as cores, from which flint tools used for butchering the elephant were chipped. But others were systematically butchered and prepared for food. The early humans butchered the elephant at the kill site and ate the meat raw, the archaeologists add. It was butchered by the studio and emerged shorn of 40 minutes in 1980. A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of BSE-will make no difference, either. The researchers found horse skulls and backbones in the villages, indicating that horses were butchered on site. Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown. Therefore, last spring my husband spent several days butchering our winter rabbits. Researchers believe that Ebola is most commonly transmitted when people butcher infected apes for food. Also, Mr Clarke can butcher a beast for his shop on a wooden block behind the counter. Synonyms slaughter, cut up, carve up, slice up, joint, prepare, dress 1.1 Kill (a person or people) indiscriminately or brutally. they rounded up and butchered 250 people Example sentencesExamples Outside the gates, the extremists are butchering the minority while the west twiddles its thumbs and debates the distinction between ‘genocide’ and ‘acts of genocide’. These three were flying over the village in their helicopter and saw the soldiers butchering the inhabitants with no ‘enemy’ in sight. What could their military learn now that it didn't learn during the 1970s and 80s when military ties were very open and they were butchering ethnic minorities? They'd be butchered, slaughtered like sheep before wave after wave of fierce counterattack. In 19 th-century Malaya young men ran amok butchering strangers with a sword, usually after suffering a massive blow to their self-esteem or prestige. This is a war that cannot be won by the military without butchering thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of their citizens. A botched move to a market economy and corrupt spending of offshore oil revenue were followed by a succession of civil wars in which rebel and government forces raped and butchered civilians. The Glencoe massacre was an infamous episode in Scottish history when members of the MacDonald clan were butchered by government soldiers, led by a rival clan chief Robert Campbell. A civilized species does not kill, maim, butcher, blow up, whatever you want to call it. They still exist in a time where an enemy is fit only to be butchered like an animal. The soldiers butchered scores of policemen and their families in a most horrific manner, then left their bodies to rot in the basement of a courthouse. After that they started butchering the Miskito Indians of the Atlantic coast who refused the communists attempt to collectivize their fishing fleet. Previous tapes did show hooded men butchering their captives. So, you murder, kill, and butcher, she thought cruelly, so what are you doing here in an office full of paperwork? Synonyms massacre, murder, slaughter, kill, put to death, dispatch, dispose of, destroy, exterminate, liquidate, eliminate, terminate, assassinate, put to the sword, cut down, cut to pieces literary slay 1.2 Ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence. the film was butchered by the studio that released it Example sentencesExamples This time Fumento gets the issue date of the article correct, but he incomprehensibly butchers the quote. At least when he butchers a word he does it by accident. He would certainly sacrifice his own life, knowing that he had butchered thousands of Americans. He accused the minister's office of butchering his education policy which he called a third way between publicly funded and fee paying higher education. A leading academic has launched a vicious attack on the country's powerful propaganda department, claiming it has butchered freedom of speech and protects corrupt officials. She seems to be out of her mind, butchering this beautiful song. I suspect it works because it's both written and directed by one person so it avoided the usual problem of a moderately good script being butchered by the director. White doesn't say so, but it seems safe to assume that they deliberately butchered it. Certainly life is not all negative, but I read a quote from Thomas Hardy, and I know I'm butchering it, but he basically said that you can't really hope to remedy the dark side of life until you first have looked at it. A reviewer butchers an original text, taking that which seems necessary to get the text to say what must be said, and excising the rest. If you had an incompetent employee who was costing you money and butchering important relationships, wouldn't you want to know? There was neither ease nor grace as I butchered the edges of the tin lid; deep gouges of torn aluminium and the screech of metal on metal as I twisted the tin round in a stuttered, clumsy motion. Let me state that this is my interpretation; so the best ideas came from the professor, and I may have butchered them here and that will be completely my fault. And why should a studio butcher its own work when those abusing it freely admit that, no, they haven't even seen the movie? He challenged his opponent's mendacity (and badly butchered a response on malpractice reform). So who butchers the French language worse, the English or Germans? I had to spend twice as long butchering my work as I did writing it in the first place! Oh yes, I hate this singer for butchering this song. Synonyms spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, mangle, cut about, mess up, make a mess of, wreck informal murder, make a hash of, muck up, screw up, louse up Phrases have (or take) a butcher's informal Have a look. Example sentencesExamples Anders suggests that I ‘have a butcher's’ at this page, which glosses diamond geezer as ‘A really wonderful man, helpful and reliable; a gem of a man.’ He kicks off at Kelvingrove in Glasgow where he will take a butcher's at Salvador Dali's St John Of The Cross. ‘I think I might just mosey on down and take a butcher's,’ the PFY says, exiting stage left. In the case of Peter Sarstedt, music and lyrics gave the impression that the singer intended to crack the listener over the head with a lump hammer and have a butcher's inside. We don't usually write about boozers, but being ex-pats we are always intrigued by foreign attempts at British-style pubs, so Bob and I popped into the recently established Dog & Bone down Lambton Quay to have a butcher's. Have a butchers at the first team squad and read each players profile. Meanwhile, Sharky's takes a butcher's at the P3 1.13GHz CPU. So have a butchers at that if nothing else. Synonyms glance, gaze, stare, gape, peer, fix one's gaze, focus Origin Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc 'he-goat', probably of the same ultimate origin as buck¹. The origin of butcher may tell us something about the diet of early Europeans. It goes back to a French boc meaning ‘male goat’ that is probably related to buck ‘male deer’. A butcher was originally more a slaughterman than a salesman, and the word very quickly came to refer to a person responsible for the slaughter of many people, a brutal murderer. See also shambles. Butch [1940s] for ‘masculine’ may be a shortening of the word. In the phrase to have a butcher's, ‘to have a look’, butcher's is short for butcher's hook, rhyming slang for ‘a look’. The first known printed example dates from the 1930s. noun.1 phr. Definition of butcher in US English: butcher nounˈbo͝oCHərˈbʊtʃər 1A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat in a shop. Example sentencesExamples Yet another regulation about to impact on the local meat sector is a prohibition of cutting meat for wholesale in butchers ' shops. A family-run butcher and fishmonger shop in Witham is celebrating 50 years of trading. And there was a furrier and a butcher and a shop selling fine wines. Many groceries, butchers and cheese shops can be found along St-Laurent a few blocks south of Jean-Talon, with plenty of places to stop for an espresso along the way. The recent success of farmers selling meat direct to the public is being threatened by legislation to stop butchers cutting meat for sale anywhere but in their own shops. Markets often have butchers or cooked meat shops that specialize in the head and trotters, that is, the non-organ meats that are not suitable for stews and kebabs. Health authorities traced the bacterial infection E.coli 0157 to a butcher's shop selling cooked meat pies. It's now almost seven years since the last huge blaze when flames swept through historic wooden framed High Street buildings with the butcher's shop and betting office on the ground floor. From August 1, butchers and other meat traders will no longer be able to send surplus or unfit meat to be disposed of at landfill rubbish sites. One day at the butcher shop, the butcher's son picks on them. Grocery stores did not sell meat, and the butchers did not usually have a late night. We decided to sell direct to the customer in a shop, which would incorporate a traditional butcher's shop with cutting room and cold store. People and carts ran throughout the dusty dirt streets and animals being traded or sold to butchers or other farmers crowded the path. Ms Milburn said the raid had come about because of a tip-off from Bradford Council that they had seized meat at a Keighley butcher's shop which had been slaughtered at the farm. Another case for their records, another freak they can ogle and prod like a piece of meat in a butcher's shop. I want the butcher's shops, greengrocers and bakers and so forth that have now all moved to Clifton Moor and Monks Cross. Over the past two months, our selectors have been chopping and changing the side more in the manner of a butcher in a meat shop rather than making changes with any rationale behind them. I understand that a television programme had set out to expose the ‘black economy’ in selling meat to butchers and restaurants that had been illegally slaughtered. There were vendors selling fruits and vegetables, butchers selling meats, tradesmen selling expensive cloths, and so on. Fat stock are animals that are sold to butchers for meat Synonyms meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader 1.1 A person who slaughters and cuts up animals for food. a pork butcher Example sentencesExamples Residents drove the cow into the open ground between two houses, where it was secured by police and then slaughtered by a butcher from the slaughter house. In a statement read by West Yorkshire Coroner David Hinchliff, his son told how his father had left school at 14 and began work as a butcher and slaughterman in Leeds. Winders had offered a service, allowing butchers to buy from individual farmers, get the animals slaughtered at Ulverston and delivered direct to them. By Islamic custom, butchers must slaughter animals by cutting the throat. No one is in a better position to reassure consumers about any doubts they may have about the origin and quality of food than a butcher. The story began on Sunday night when a butcher tried to slaughter the buffalo. There have been anti-government protests outside the Senate and the Agricultural Ministry, and strikes by butchers and slaughterhouses. The first offence committed by the butcher was to slaughter an animal at a place not so designated. As such, only those butchers who slaughter their own animals can produce it. After slaughtering the animal, the butcher gave the children a close-up look at the heart, tendons and other internal organs of the cow. A while later we were attacked by butchers from the nearby slaughterhouse. His dad was a butcher and slaughterman who was often out of work in the depression, and times were hard. Surely a woman in the 1950's would be likely to buy one already slaughtered from a butcher. After almost 30 years of working six days a week, Otley pork butchers David and Barbara Brown are looking forward to a day off. It appeared to him that almost everyone was a butcher and when an animal was slaughtered, everything was used down to the last drop of blood. The refinery, built in 1998, processes food waste and animal by-products collected from slaughterhouses, butchers and supermarkets. He also refused to compromise on quality and that meant rejecting parts of the animals that some butchers put into their products. To be certified as halal an animal must be slaughtered by a Muslim butcher who recites a prayer over the animal and then quickly slits its throat. A son of Patrick and Gabrielle O'Rourke, he has been a butcher in the Food Experience in Sligo for the past six years. Opinions on everything from the psyche of purchasing to pork butchers are shot through the narrative. Synonyms meat seller, meat merchant, meat trader 1.2 A person who kills or has people killed indiscriminately or brutally. a callous butcher of men Example sentencesExamples He is the godfather of the settlement movement, a butcher and the master of a brutal and relentless occupation. It immediately made me think of serial killers and butchers. ‘He is a butcher, he tortures people, kills them personally,’ Mr Rumsfeld said in Atlanta, Georgia. I figure that if people can wear a T-shirt that portrays a ruthless butcher that terrorized my country of birth as a hero, then I can wear a shirt proclaiming my views. No one can deny that Macbeth is a ruthless butcher and bloody fiend. Just as providence protects drunks and fools, so it also spares the pseuds who make excuses for the butchers who have killed their neighbours. Here, our victims are merely statistics whereas bombers are called soldiers instead of terrorists, murderers, butchers… Up along the bay still seagulling like a mix of Welsh and Irish, bible black and pudding with fingers in his mouth - maybe his own this time, the slavering butcher, the killer in some eyes. With a galactic reputation for being butchers, and ravenous executioners, the Rangers weren't known for leaving anyone alive after an operation. And all it does is, you know, reinvent his image as a murderer and as a butcher, and it reminds people of what people believe he did. Their people will have an opportunity for democracy and freedom instead of being under the regime of this murderous butcher and his family. I told him they were a bunch of murdering butchers and he didn't like that. Synonyms murderer, mass murderer, slaughterer, killer, assassin, serial killer, homicidal maniac, destroyer, terminator, liquidator 2North American informal A person selling refreshments, newspapers, and other items on a train or in a stadium or theater. verbˈbo͝oCHərˈbʊtʃər [with object] 1Slaughter or cut up (an animal) for food. the meat will be butchered for the local market Example sentencesExamples Therefore, last spring my husband spent several days butchering our winter rabbits. Each year, Old Sturbridge Village butchers a pig in early December. I'm not familiar with the book, though I've read that the film version butchered the story a bit, cutting out major plot points and character development. Whitewater's grandmother, who is the matriarch, decides which sheep are butchered and when. I recently stayed with some Bedouin tribes in Jordan, where the women did the bread-making while the men slaughtered and butchered the goat for us. For example, the team recovered six larger stones known as cores, from which flint tools used for butchering the elephant were chipped. The researchers found horse skulls and backbones in the villages, indicating that horses were butchered on site. A ban on butchering downer cows - animals that stagger, can't walk, or exhibit other signs of BSE-will make no difference, either. Then he dragged out a small knife and began cleanly butchering the deer. Among this group were men who could do anything from butchering a cow to fixing a motor with a piece of wire or operating on a casualty with a jackknife. Scenes of milking, slaughtering and butchering cattle, and hunting wild cattle in swamps are also shown. The ponies would be butchered in foreign slaughterhouses and could end up on menus in countries such as France, where the meat is a delicacy. I've even seen her helping to butcher cattle, much to the surprise of the soldiers. The early humans butchered the elephant at the kill site and ate the meat raw, the archaeologists add. Other neighbors have found migrants butchering their newborn calves, opening water lines to drink - leaving them flowing - and stealing their trucks. It was butchered by the studio and emerged shorn of 40 minutes in 1980. Women do the daily cooking, while men butcher pigs for feasts. Also, Mr Clarke can butcher a beast for his shop on a wooden block behind the counter. One girl had watched her cousin butcher a sheep before and she thought we should get a whole animal. Although she observed no live cattle being butchered, she concluded that the plant's older-style equipment was ‘overloaded.’ Researchers believe that Ebola is most commonly transmitted when people butcher infected apes for food. But others were systematically butchered and prepared for food. Synonyms slaughter, cut up, carve up, slice up, joint, prepare, dress 1.1 Kill (someone) brutally. they butchered 250 people Example sentencesExamples They still exist in a time where an enemy is fit only to be butchered like an animal. So, you murder, kill, and butcher, she thought cruelly, so what are you doing here in an office full of paperwork? A botched move to a market economy and corrupt spending of offshore oil revenue were followed by a succession of civil wars in which rebel and government forces raped and butchered civilians. Outside the gates, the extremists are butchering the minority while the west twiddles its thumbs and debates the distinction between ‘genocide’ and ‘acts of genocide’. In 19 th-century Malaya young men ran amok butchering strangers with a sword, usually after suffering a massive blow to their self-esteem or prestige. A civilized species does not kill, maim, butcher, blow up, whatever you want to call it. This is a war that cannot be won by the military without butchering thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of their citizens. These three were flying over the village in their helicopter and saw the soldiers butchering the inhabitants with no ‘enemy’ in sight. Previous tapes did show hooded men butchering their captives. The Glencoe massacre was an infamous episode in Scottish history when members of the MacDonald clan were butchered by government soldiers, led by a rival clan chief Robert Campbell. The soldiers butchered scores of policemen and their families in a most horrific manner, then left their bodies to rot in the basement of a courthouse. They'd be butchered, slaughtered like sheep before wave after wave of fierce counterattack. What could their military learn now that it didn't learn during the 1970s and 80s when military ties were very open and they were butchering ethnic minorities? After that they started butchering the Miskito Indians of the Atlantic coast who refused the communists attempt to collectivize their fishing fleet. Synonyms massacre, murder, slaughter, kill, put to death, dispatch, dispose of, destroy, exterminate, liquidate, eliminate, terminate, assassinate, put to the sword, cut down, cut to pieces 1.2 Ruin (something) deliberately or through incompetence. the film was butchered by the studio that released it Example sentencesExamples White doesn't say so, but it seems safe to assume that they deliberately butchered it. He accused the minister's office of butchering his education policy which he called a third way between publicly funded and fee paying higher education. He would certainly sacrifice his own life, knowing that he had butchered thousands of Americans. So who butchers the French language worse, the English or Germans? Let me state that this is my interpretation; so the best ideas came from the professor, and I may have butchered them here and that will be completely my fault. She seems to be out of her mind, butchering this beautiful song. I suspect it works because it's both written and directed by one person so it avoided the usual problem of a moderately good script being butchered by the director. And why should a studio butcher its own work when those abusing it freely admit that, no, they haven't even seen the movie? He challenged his opponent's mendacity (and badly butchered a response on malpractice reform). At least when he butchers a word he does it by accident. This time Fumento gets the issue date of the article correct, but he incomprehensibly butchers the quote. There was neither ease nor grace as I butchered the edges of the tin lid; deep gouges of torn aluminium and the screech of metal on metal as I twisted the tin round in a stuttered, clumsy motion. If you had an incompetent employee who was costing you money and butchering important relationships, wouldn't you want to know? A leading academic has launched a vicious attack on the country's powerful propaganda department, claiming it has butchered freedom of speech and protects corrupt officials. A reviewer butchers an original text, taking that which seems necessary to get the text to say what must be said, and excising the rest. Oh yes, I hate this singer for butchering this song. Certainly life is not all negative, but I read a quote from Thomas Hardy, and I know I'm butchering it, but he basically said that you can't really hope to remedy the dark side of life until you first have looked at it. I had to spend twice as long butchering my work as I did writing it in the first place! Synonyms spoil, ruin, mar, mutilate, mangle, cut about, mess up, make a mess of, wreck Origin Middle English: from an Anglo-Norman French variant of Old French bochier, from boc ‘he-goat’, probably of the same ultimate origin as buck.
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