butcher (v.) Copy link Outline I. To slaughter animalsII. To murder cruelly1. trŭcīdo, 12. obtrunco, 1 • butcher (v.): I. To slaughter animals: caedo, obtrunco: v. to kill. II. To murder cruelly: 1. trŭcīdo, 1: beware, lest if taken prisoners, ye be b.'d like cattle, cavete neu capti sicut pecora trucidemini, Sall. 2. obtrunco, 1: to be b.'d like cattle, vice pecorum obtruncari, Sall. fr.: v. to murder, massacre.