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BUTCHERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does butchering mean?
• BUTCHERING (noun)
The noun BUTCHERING has 1 sense:
1. the business of a butcher
Familiarity information: BUTCHERING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The business of a butcher
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
butchering; butchery
Hypernyms ("butchering" is a kind of...):
business; business enterprise; commercial enterprise (the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects)
Meronyms (parts of "butchering"):
slaughter (the killing of animals (as for food))
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