Synonyms for butcher
ˈbʊtʃ ərbutch·er

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1. butcher

   To kill is simply to deprive of life, human, animal, or vegetable, with no suggestion of how or why. Assassinate, execute, murder, apply only to the taking of human life; to murder is to kill with premeditation and malicious intent; to execute is to kill in fulfilment of a legal sentence; to assassinate is to kill by assault; this word is chiefly applied to the killing of public or eminent persons through alleged political motives, whether secretly or openly. To slay is to kill by a blow, or by a weapon. Butcher and slaughter apply primarily to the killing of cattle; massacre is applied primarily and almost exclusively to human beings, signifying to kill them indiscriminately in large numbers; to massacre is said when there is no chance of successful resistance; to butcher when the killing is especially brutal; soldiers mown down in a hopeless charge are said to be slaughtered when no brutality on the enemy's part is implied. To despatch is to kill swiftly and in general quietly, always with intention, with or without right.

   Synonyms:
   assassinate, despatch, execute, kill, massacre, murder, put to death, slaughter, slay

   Preposition:
   To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.

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1. butcher, meatmannoun

   a retailer of meat

   Synonyms:
   bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumbler

2. butchernoun

   a brutal indiscriminate murderer

   Synonyms:
   bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumbler

3. butcher, slaughterernoun

   a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

   Synonyms:
   bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumbler

4. bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckupverb

   someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

   Synonyms:
   bloomer, blunderer, botcher, bungle, flub, blooper, stumbler, tripper, pratfall, fumbler, foul-up, sad sack, meatman, boo-boo, blunder, bumbler, slaughterer, boner, botch, bungler

5. butcher, slaughterverb

   kill (animals) usually for food consumption

   "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

   Synonyms:
   massacre, mow down, slaughter

Matched Categories

1. • Kill
   • Murderer
   • Skilled Worker

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1. butchernoun

   Synonyms:
   slayer, killer, murderer, slaughterer, assassin, cut-throat

2. butcherverb

   Synonyms:
   kill, MURDER, slay, slaughter, massacre, ASSASSINATE, despatch, put to death

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1. butcherverb

   Synonyms:
   slaughter

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1. List of paraphrases for "butcher":

   boucher, stopper, executioner

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How to use butcher in a sentence?

1. Ran Barkai:

   In order to be able to use animal resources, they needed to have tools in order to cut and butcher.

2. Iraj Harirchi:

   Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :.

3. Polly Adler:

   What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution.

4. Margaret Hilda Thatcher:

   I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.

5. Adam Smith:

   It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own neccessities but of their advantages.