different between assassinate vs butcher

English

Etymology

From assassin +? -ate, after Middle French assassiner.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??sas?ne?t/

Verb

assassinate (third-person singular simple present assassinates, present participle assassinating, simple past and past participle assassinated)

1. To murder someone, especially an important person, by a sudden or obscure attack, especially for ideological or political reasons. [from 17th c.]
2. (figuratively) To harm, ruin, or defame severely or destroy by treachery, slander, libel, or obscure attack.
   • 1682, John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, The Duke of Guise

     Your rhymes assassinate our fame.

Related terms

• assassin
• assassination
• royal assassin

Translations

Noun

assassinate (plural assassinates)

1. (obsolete) Assassination, murder.
2. (obsolete) An assassin.

Translations

See also

• Wikipedia article on Assassins
• murder
• regicide

Italian

Verb

assassinate

1. second-person plural present indicative of assassinare
2. second-person plural imperative of assassinare
3. feminine plural of assassinato

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?t?.?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?t??.?/
• Rhymes: -?t??(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English buccher, bucher, boucher, bocher, from Anglo-Norman boucher, Old French bouchier (“goat slaughterer”), from Old French bouc (“goat”), from Medieval Latin buccus (“he-goat”), of Germanic origin. More at English buck.

Noun

butcher (plural butchers)

1. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
2. (figuratively) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
3. (Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
4. (informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.

Synonyms

• carnager
• flesher 1
• mayhemist
• slayer 2

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Hindi: ????? (b?ca?)
• ? Urdu: ????? (b?ca?)

Translations

Verb

butcher (third-person singular simple present butchers, present participle butchering, simple past and past participle butchered)

1. (transitive) To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

   Synonyms: kill, slaughter

2. (transitive) To kill brutally.

   Synonyms: massacre, slay

3. (transitive) To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   Synonym: murder

Translations

Etymology 2

butch +? -er

Adjective

butcher

1. comparative form of butch: more butch

Anagrams

• Buchert