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
1synonym study For butcher
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
How about the five TD passes he threw in a 63-0 butchering of Maryland?
The Heisman ‘Bad Boys’: Jameis Winston, Johnny Manziel, and Who Should Really Win | Allen Barra | December 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTButchering babies that were already born and were older than the state's 24-week limit for abortions is the story.
In the massacres of 1895, armed men were butchering unarmed; and there was no test of anything but passive endurance.
The Cradle of Mankind | W.A. WigramAt least I had done nothing, like butchering a few of them, that would make them antagonistic toward future ancestral messengers.
The Repairman | Harry HarrisonChopping and slicing and sawing, as if butchering a steer, Raoul cut through the thick neck until at last the head came free.
Shaman | Robert Shea
In butchering her he has, however, clumsily dropped a piece of her little finger on the ground.
The Science of Fairy Tales | Edwin Sidney HartlandThe task of butchering the helpless Huguenots in the prison was first proposed to the public hangman.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots | Henry Baird
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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