butcher

boucher

Personne dont le métier est de découper et de vendre de la viande.

En anglais simple : A person whose job is to cut and sell meat.

• The butcher sells fresh meat.
• I bought some chicken from our local butcher.
• Ask the butcher to cut the beef into pieces.

Expressions courantes : local butcher, butcher shop, a skilled butcher

abatteur, boucher

Personne dont le métier est de tuer des animaux et de les découper pour leur viande.

En anglais simple : A person whose job is to kill animals and cut them up for meat.

• The butcher killed the pig.
• Two butchers prepared the animals for sale.
• They hired a trained butcher to handle the cattle.

Synonymes : slaughterer

Expressions courantes : a trained butcher, a professional butcher

boucher, massacreur

Personne qui tue des gens avec une grande cruauté.

En anglais simple : A person who kills people in a cruel and violent way.

• The villagers called him a butcher.
• The general became known as the butcher of the city.
• Survivors described the prison guards as butchers.

Synonymes : murderer, killer

Expressions courantes : a ruthless butcher, a cruel butcher

massacrer, saccager

Faire quelque chose si mal que le résultat est complètement gâché.

En anglais simple : To do something so badly that you spoil it completely.

• They butchered my favourite song.
• The studio butchered the script during editing.
• Please do not butcher this beautiful piece of music.

Synonymes : ruin, botch, mangle

Expressions courantes : butcher a song, butcher a script, butcher something badly, butcher a name

abattre, dépecer

Tuer un animal et découper son corps pour en faire de la viande à manger.

En anglais simple : To kill an animal and cut its body into pieces for food.

• They butchered a pig.
• The farmer learned to butcher sheep for meat.
• Who will butcher the cattle this year?

Synonymes : slaughter

Expressions courantes : butcher a pig, butcher an animal, butcher cattle