Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense butchers, present participle butchering, past tense, past participle butchered
1N-COUNT 屠夫;屠户;肉贩子 A butcher is a shopkeeper who cuts up and sells meat. Some butchers also kill animals for meat and make foods such as sausages and meat pies. 屠夫;屠户;肉贩子
2N-COUNT 肉铺;肉店 A butcher or a butcher's is a shop where meat is sold. 肉铺;肉店
3VERB 屠宰 To butcher an animal means to kill it and cut it up for meat. 屠宰
Pigs were butchered, hams were hung to dry from the ceiling. [beVERB-ed]
4N-COUNT 刽子手;杀人狂 You can refer to someone as a butcher when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. 刽子手;杀人狂 [disapproval] [disapproval]
Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon. [+ of]
5VERB 屠戮;残杀 You can say that someone has butchered people when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. 屠戮;残杀 [disapproval]