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单词 butchering
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butcheringn.

Brit. /ˈbʊtʃ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbʊtʃərɪŋ/
Forms: see butcher v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butcher v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < butcher v. + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. Brutal or indiscriminate slaughter; an act or instance of this. Cf. butcher v. 1a.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun]
sleightc893
wal-slaught?a900
qualeeOE
deathOE
swordc1000
morthOE
slaughta1225
destroyingc1300
drepingc1300
martyrdomc1325
murderc1325
mortc1330
sleighterc1330
slaughter1338
iron and firea1387
murraina1387
manslaughtera1400
martyre?a1400
quella1425
occision?a1430
decease1513
destruction1526
slaughting1535
butchery?1536
butchering1572
massacrea1578
slaughterdom1592
slaughtering1597
carnage1600
massacring1600
slaughtery1604
internecion1610
decimationa1613
destroy1616
trucidation1623
stragea1632
sword-wrack1646
interemption1656
carnifice1657
panolethry1668
butcher work1808
bloodbath1814
populicide1824
man-slaughtering1851
battue1864
mass murder1917
genocide1944
overkill1957
1572 E. Cradock Shippe of Assured Safetie iv. xi. 465 He beareth with a good will the mercylesse butchering of his dearest friends.
1629 G. Chapman Iustification Nero 7 The vndanted heart of our Emperor, which neuer was knowne to shrinke at the butchering of his owne mother Agrippina.
1696 W. Talbot Serm. 13 The Butchering of many Thousands of their innocent Fellow-Subjects.
1786 J. Z. Holwell Diss. Intelligent Beings 74 Does not the annals of Christendom..exhibit such instances of superstition, persecution, cruelties, and butcherings?
1854 Anglo-Amer. Mag. Mar. 270/2 We challenge Mr. Abbott to show us how the butchering of the prisoners bettered Napoleon's position as to the Turk.
1866 H. Bushnell Vicarious Sacrifice iv. i. 462 Every woman, every child, looked on at the butchering.
1952 Manitoba School Jrnl. Jan. 13/2 The bloody gladiatorial butcherings in the Roman arenas.
2008 Sun (Nexis) 26 June He has overseen the butchering of thousands of political opponents and allowed millions to starve to death.
b. figurative. The action or an act of harming, damaging, or destroying something, either intentionally or through incompetence. Cf. butcher v. 1b(a).
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [noun] > action
illingc1220
annoyingc1330
impairingc1380
appairing1388
harminga1400
infection?1520
deringc1540
endamaging1567
hurtinga1568
maiminga1568
damaging1569
touching1590
butchering1618
damnificationa1631
poisoning1631
spoiling1632
vitiating1647
sapping1825
1618 T. Thompson Antichrist Arraigned 177 A butchering of your bodies by Flagellations, and other Exercises.
1687 T. Kemeys Veritas Evangelica vi. 29 If it be a Butchering of Consciences, to force men to Believe, as the Church doth Teach; Why do you force us to Believe as you Teach?
1831 T. Carlyle in Edinb. Rev. Mar. 153 The butchering of a Faust will henceforth be accounted literary homicide.
1856 Musical Times Aug. 278/1 The superintending conductor, after the butchering of a master, none the less serenely lays down his stick with a satisfied smile.
1916 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 23 Jan. (Mag. section) 6/4 The butchering of architectural features of our south-western ruins by pot hunters.
1986 Current Policy (Dept. of State) Sept. We are about to witness the dismantling—indeed, butchering—of the most important instrument of our foreign policy.
2010 J. A. Stern Mary Chesnut's Civil War Epic viii. 197 Mrs. Malaprop, whose famous butchering of the English language proved so culturally compelling that a term was coined in her honor.
2. The action or an act of slaughtering animals for food. Also: the skill or practice of dividing and preparing the carcass of an animal; the techniques used in butchery. Cf. butcher v. 3.Cf. pork butchering n. at pork n.1 Compounds 2.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing of animals > [noun]
slaughtera1300
to make larder ofa1330
murdering?a1475
fall1575
butchering1609
ovicide1828
felicide1832
poultrycide1841
piscicide1847
vealing1847
kill1850
slaughterage1854
birdicide1862
apricide1864
insecticide1865
vulpicidism1865
vulpicide1873
serpenticide1882
tauricide1882
vaccicide1887
leporicide1914
culling1938
cull1958
1609 C. Cotton tr. J. Calvin Comm. Prophecie Isaiah (xxii. 13) 215/2 The Lord vpbraides them with the killing of oxen, and butchering of sheepe [L. mactarint oues].
1684 Bp. G. Burnet tr. T. More Utopia 92 They suffer none of their Citizens to kill their Cattel, because they think, that Pity and good Nature..are much impaired by the butchering of Animals.
1773 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1920) 15 63 I expect one more steer from the Island; the last we had from thence was..miserably mangled in the butchering.
1808 J. W. Cunningham Christianity in India i. iv. 99 The Hindus, however criminal they esteem the butchering of a cow, do not hesitate cruelly to beat or starve it.
1863 Builder 21 Mar. 202/2 The art of butchering is a useful one, and demands skill.
1914 New Internat. Year Bk. 1913 653/2 England and the continent were suffering from a shortage of meat animals, due to the butchering of breeding stock and the increase in population.
1955 C. Atwood Spider of Mind xxi. 154 These were usually outdoor butcherings with the hogs hung from a tripod of poles.
2000 A. Bourdain Kitchen Confid. (2001) 39 Learning the fundamentals of butchering, I found for the first time that constant proximity to meat seems to inspire black humor in humans.
3. The trade or occupation of a butcher.In quot. 1904 with the in the same sense (colloquial).
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > [noun] > butchery
butcheryc1449
fleshery1483
brittlingc1650
butching1688
butchering1860
1860 O. W. Holmes Professor's Story iii, in Atlantic Monthly Feb. 223/2 A great, hulking fellow, who had been bred to butchering.
1904 Daily Chron. 31 Dec. 4/7 You will always hear, ‘I am in the butchering’, or ‘the tailoring’.
1925 Spectator 27 June 1039/1 The profession of butchering itself is beginning to realize its own backwardness.
2003 P. K. Monod Murder of Mr. Grebell v. 187 His early career does not seem to have been very successful, however, which brought him back..to his father's trade of butchering.

Compounds

General attributive.
a. In sense 1a.
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1589 A. Dowriche French Hist. f. 32 With their blodie butchering kniues like tigers they do fall Vpon these sillie soules, in murder fiercelie bent.
1604 J. Williams in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 53 Thexecutioners playde there butchringe partes.
1678 H. Care Char. Turbulent Pragmatical Jesuit 3 He owes his Original to Ignatius Loyala..and though found out long since the invention of the Cannon, has not done less mischief than that Butchering Engine.
1707 L. Echard Hist. Eng. iii. ii. 868 Prodigious Quantities of Bullets, Powder, Field-pieces, Muskets,..Chains, Whips, Butchering-Knives, and whatever else could serve for Ostentation or Terror.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. iii. 38/1 The Soldier wears openly, and even parades, his butchering-tool.
1865 P. Mackenzie Reminisc. Glasgow & West of Scotl. I. vii. 488 Is our house to be invaded..and the very police attempted to be assassinated, by that sodger and his butchering bayonet?
1922 Bull. City Art Mus. St. Louis Apr. 22/2 To inlay gold violets in a steel butchering weapon strikes the western mind as an inconsistent, an unfitting thing.
1943 N.Y. Times 15 June 3/5 This was the first time an enemy airman was known to have tried to use a propeller as a butchering weapon.
b. In sense 2.
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1738 London Evening-post 12–14 Dec. George Pots, his Butchering-Shop and Stable.
1767 Adventures of Author II. xxi. 186 You are a very impertinent fellow—who made you a philosopher? you had better stick to your butchering trade.
1802 Scioto (Ohio) Gaz. 17 July Notice is hereby given..that the subscriber intends carrying on the Butchering Business, in this town.
1883 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Sentinel 24 Apr. 7/5 (advt.) Butchering bulls 3.50@4.50.
1900 Daily News 10 Apr. 8/6 Fat butchering cows.
1943 Circleville (Ohio) Herald 16 Oct. 6/5 Butchering tools; lard press; grinder; 4 iron kettles.
1984 Texas Monthly Mar. 208/3 The guys out in the butchering barn had plucked and dressed them [sc. the geese].
2016 Bon Appétit Mar. 100/2 Urban America..got into this revived notion of homesteading, raising Ameraucana chickens and wearing overalls to take all-day butchering classes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

butcheringadj.

Brit. /ˈbʊtʃ(ə)rɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbʊtʃərɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: butcher v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < butcher v. + -ing suffix2.
That butchers (butcher v. 1a); that kills brutally or indiscriminately.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective]
butcherly1528
butcherlike1555
butchering1574
butcherous1575
massacring1585
slaughtering?1592
massacrous1593
butchery1626
carnificial1632
internecine1642
murdering1667
carnificine1681
genocidal1948
1574 R. Robinson Rewarde of Wickednesse sig. E2 Then they might that filthye fashion flee. And turne to Christ.., the bloodye butchering Pope for to detest.
1648 Looking-glasse for Well-affected in London 2 If we should withdraw our assistance from our old Companions and fellows in Armes, reposing confidence in the glozing speeches of a Butchering party [etc.].
1665 T. Curwen et al. Answer to John Wiggin's Bk. 83 Thou hast been both a Priest, and a Butchering Major.
1756 G. Washington Let. 21 Apr. in Writings (1931) I. 325 I could offer myself a willing sacrifice to the butchering enemy, provided that would contribute to the people's ease.
1775 J. Warren In Congress, at Watertown (broadside) 30 Apr. The butchering Hands of an inhuman Soldiery.
1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo ii. iv. xlv. 184 From butchering strife Delivered, and reclaimed to moral life.
1857 Monthly Relig. Mag. May 300 This general civilization of the world has never kindled the fires to melt one sword or spear... It has changed the butchering savage into the cultivated warrior.
1919 Sock Songs 82 Though never raised nor fed on war, America's brave sons, In home knit socks on sea and shore, Beat back the butchering Huns.
1972 Pampa (Texas) Daily News 28 June 6/5 Giap..was furiously assailed as a ‘butchering murderer’ and ‘reckless blunderer.’
2012 New Yorker (Nexis) 1 Oct. (Comment section) 21 The filmmakers employed the same strategies..that Syrian revolutionaries use daily to rally resistance to the butchering government in Damascus.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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