butcher
noun
a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
have been butchering
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present perfect progressiveof butcher.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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It’s on a stretch of Miami’s Allapattah neighborhood known as Little Santo Domingo, where fish cutters have been butchering whole fish for home cooks at Plaza Seafood since the early 1990s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2021
“Advertisers have been butchering the English language for years,” she said, citing “Manwich, Swiffer, Jazzercise and Renuzit.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 16, 2014
