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butcher

noun as in meat killer, seller

verb as in slay and prepare animal for meat

verb as in ruin

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Example Sentences

Fields, nicknamed 'The Butcher', arrives wearing a butcher's apron.

From BBC

A 9-year-old girl who fell in love with the goat she raised for the Shasta District Fair was heartbroken when deputies, wielding a search warrant, confiscated the furry livestock, taking him away to be butchered.

When they wake, there's an abundance of food to find, and countless butchers from whom to seek scraps.

From Salon

Its carcass has since been ferried in a canoe to the palace of one of the Emir of Yauri's high-ranking administrators, where it has been butchered and its meat given to those in local community.

From BBC

For references, he listed the mayor, the butcher, the dairyman and the service station operator, and his mother signed papers saying that she wouldn’t request his early discharge.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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