Brutalise vs Butcher - What's the difference?
brutalise | butcher |
To brutally inflict violence on something.
To make something brutal, .
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
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(by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To kill brutally.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
As a verb brutalise
is .As a proper noun butcher is
for a butcher.brutalise
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Alternative forms
* brutalizeVerb
butcher
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(wikipedia butcher)Noun
(en noun)- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- Butcher of an innocent child.
Derived terms
* * butcher's hook * pork butcherVerb
(en verb)- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".