Betekenis van butcher In het Nederlands

• 0 a person who sells meat in a shop

• 1 someone who murders a lot of people, especially in a cruel way

• 2 to kill or cut up an animal for meat:

  • He raises pigs and butchers his own meat.

  • This is where farmers brought their livestock to be butchered.

  • The truck was transporting freshly butchered chickens.

• 3 to kill people in a very violent way or in large numbers:

  • He butchered thousands of people.

  • Unarmed civilians are being butchered by the occupying forces.

• 4 to spoil something completely by performing or dealing with it very badly:

  • He complained that TV screenwriters had butchered his story.

  • I couldn't bear to hear our national anthem being butchered like that.

• 5 a person whose job is to kill animals for meat or who prepares and sells meat in a store

• 6 to kill animals and prepare them to be sold as meat