butcher
a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
a person who slaughters certain animals, or who dresses the flesh of animals, fish, or poultry, for food or market.
a person guilty of brutal or indiscriminate slaughter or murder.
a vendor who hawks newspapers, candy, beverages, etc., as on a train, at a stadium, etc.
to slaughter or dress (animals, fish, or poultry) for market.
to kill indiscriminately or brutally.
to bungle; botch: to butcher a job.
Origin of butcher
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Other words for butcher
Other words from butcher
- butch·er·er, noun
- un·butch·ered, adjective
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How to use butcher in a sentence
Beijing claims to oppose the illicit traffic in the tusks of elephants butchered by poachers.
And treated with more dignity and kindness than the viable newborns he butchered and discarded.
Kermit Gosnell Found Guilty of Murdering Three Babies | Megan McArdle | May 13, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTYou go to see hotties getting butchered in new and creative ways.
Whatever Happened to ‘Prison Break’ Hunk Wentworth Miller? | Ramin Setoodeh | March 6, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWe buy meat for ourselves that is humanely raised and butchered (when we can).
Why I Choose to Be Child-Free: Readers Share Their Stories | Harry Siegel | February 27, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTBesides plunder, raiders butchered people, often in the most brutal fashion.
The Bin Laden of His Day? A New Biography of Geronimo | Marc Wortman | December 5, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
She looked so delighted, and yet it made me sick to think of his having been butchered so.
A Confederate Girl's Diary | Sarah Margan DawsonEven a few, who were saved by the soldiers, satiated with blood, were next day miserably butchered by orders from the general.
He would have butchered another ox, but as the boat would now hold no more, Duff with difficulty made him stop.
Ralph Granger's Fortunes | William Perry BrownHouses were burned, plantations destroyed and the inhabitants butchered.
The Indian: On the Battle-Field and in the Wigwam | John FrostThe men were all butchered, and eighty women and children were sent to join those in a house near the Nana.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year | Edwin Emerson
British Dictionary definitions for butcher
/ (ˈbʊtʃə) /
a retailer of meat
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
an indiscriminate or brutal murderer
a person who destroys, ruins, or bungles something
to slaughter or dress (animals) for meat
to kill indiscriminately or brutally
to make a mess of; botch; ruin
Origin of butcher
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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