Butcher
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals). A brutal or indiscriminate killer. (Cockney rhyming slang, via butcher's hook) A look. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses , etc. (old, informal).
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market. To kill brutally. To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
Example sentence: I think the reason for my fascination with craft is what it represents, what it means in our culture, what it means in our history and in humanity. It was the idea that you could go to your butcher to get something, you could go to your tailor to get this, and you could go to your cobbler to get that.
Slaughter
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The killing of animals, generally for foodA massacre; the killing of a large number of peopleA rout or decisive defeat
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To butcher animals, generally for foodTo massacre people in large numbersTo kill in a particularly brutal manner
Example sentence: To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.