Abattoir vs. Butcher
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Difference Between Abattoir and Butcher
Abattoirnoun
A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.
Butchernoun
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
Abattoirnoun
A place likened to a slaughterhouse.
Butchernoun
(figurative) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
Abattoirnoun
a building where animals are butchered
Butchernoun
A look.
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Butchernoun
A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
Butcherverb
(transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
Butcherverb
(transitive) To kill brutally.
Butcherverb
(transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".Butchernoun
a retailer of meat
Butchernoun
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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Butchernoun
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
Butchernoun
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
Butcherverb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption;
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
