Butchering
Pronunciation : Butch"er*ing
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. The business of a butcher.
2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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