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butcher

/ˈbʊt͡ʃɚ/ verbo B2

En español: carnear, matar, destazar, despostar

  1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market. (transitive)
  2. To work as a butcher. (intransitive)
  3. To kill brutally. (transitive)
  4. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation. (transitive) · The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
  5. To mess up hopelessly; to botch; to distort beyond recognition. (transitive) · I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.

He/she/it butchers · Pasado butchered · Participio pasado butchered · Forma en -ing butchering

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Pasado
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Participio pasado
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Forma en -ing
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De la biblioteca

And that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the Waingunga while the villagers here hunted through all our lairs in revenge!
The Jungle Book, p. 7 · B2
“Are we all jackals, to fawn on this cattle butcher?
The Jungle Book, p. 22 · B2
She was going to the butcher’s, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed.”
Pride and Prejudice, p. 308 · B2
If you want my flesh, there is the butcher, who will kill me in an instant; but if you want my fleece and wool, there is the shearer, who will shear and not hurt me.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 32 · B2

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