disapproval You can say that someone has butchered people when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. Guards butchered 1,350 prisoners = slaughter
disapproval You can refer to someone as a butcher when they have killed a lot of people in a very cruel way, and you want to express your horror and disgust. Klaus Barbie was known in France as the Butcher of Lyon
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food
The Butcher Achmed Pasha was called djezzar (the butcher), and is said to have whipped off the heads of his seven wives He is famous for his defence of Acre against Napoleon I The Butcher John, ninth lord Clifford, also called The Black, died 1461 The Bloody Butcher The Duke of Cumberland, second son of George II So called from his barbarities in suppressing the rebellion of the young Pretender The Royalist Butcher Blaise de Montluc, distinguished for his cruelties to the Protestants in the reign of Charles IX of France (1502-1572)