massacrer

noun

Definition of massacrernext
as in butcher

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  1. butcher
  2. executioner
  3. torpedo
  4. hit man
Noun
  • The closure announcement was made Oct. 26 on the butcher shop's official Facebook page.
    Erik S. Hanley, Journal Sentinel, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Its products are sold at its West Village butcher shop, at Eastern Market on Saturdays year-round, and at Birmingham’s Farmer’s Market on select Sundays.
    Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 8 Nov. 2024
Definition of butcher
Noun
  • Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972) Blue Eye Samurai owes a debt to countless stories of wandering warriors, among them Lone Wolf and Cub, in which a shōgun’s executioner turned outcast wanders the countryside with his toddler son (and a baby cart rigged with weapons).
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Iran, one of the world’s top executioners, typically hangs condemned prisoners before sunrise.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2024
Definition of executioner
Noun
  • Collectors can also bid on pocket watches recovered from the Lusitania, the British ocean liner that sank after being hit by a German torpedo in 1915.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Most also carry lightweight weapons, such as depth charges and torpedoes, but generally other platforms are used to attack submarines.
    Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2024
Definition of torpedo
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  • The casa rifugio was set up to keep women safe from violent spouses, not to protect them from hit men.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Malaria, dengue fever, dysentery, and in a few cases typhus, hit man after man.
    Salama Udaipurwala, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of hit man
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