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Topic: FOOD

butcher

2 verb
     
butcher2 [transitive]
1DFTA to kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat
2 to kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people
3 informal to spoil something by working carelessly:
That hairdresser really butchered my hair!
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