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How to pronounce butchering in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms butchery
Type of business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise

Examples of butchering

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Got an uncle who insists on hunting wild mushrooms or butchering his own steak?
From the dailyherald.com
When hog-butchering time came, all the neighbors took turns helping each other.
From the stltoday.com
I think that even when I began the butchering I wasn't ready to write the book.
From the dailynews.com
Butchering meat is a lot of work but well worth the time for all you get from it.
From the thenewstribune.com
One of the things they used these tools for was hunting and butchering animals.
From the newscientist.com
The videos of the more cheffy techniques, such as butchering rabbit, are great.
From the guardian.co.uk
The tibia bone is broken with a single blow, as one might do in butchering a cow.
From the washingtonpost.com
Her prose explores the link between butchering and her own tortured romantic life.
From the dailyherald.com
Powell says she learned to be brutally honest with herself through butchering.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • A retailer of meat
  • Kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
  • A brutal indiscriminate murderer
  • A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
  • Bungler: someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
  • A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat or any combination of these three tasks.http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/butcher They may prepare standard cuts of meat, poultry, fish and shellfish for sale in retail or wholesale food establishments. ...
  • Butcher (full name and dates of birth and death unknown) was an English cricketer.
  • Butcher is a common family name in England but it may have French origins. The name first reached England following its conquest by the Normans in 1066. It was originally an occupational surname used to identify a person who worked as a Butcher. ...
  • Butcher (dates unknown) refers to an English cricketer who was one of the most outstanding professional bowlers of the late 18th century. No personal details have been traced and knowledge of him is limited to what is in match reports and scorecards.