butchering

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English

Verb

butchering

  1. present participle and gerund of butcher

Noun

butchering (countable and uncountable, plural butcherings)

  1. The act by which someone or something is butchered, as:
    1. Dismemberment.
      Coordinate terms: killing, slaughtering (coordinate in precise usage referring to animal carcasses)
    2. (loosely) Slaughter or killing, especially of a human being.
    3. (figuratively) Botching; a botched job.

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