Butcher

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.
  • n. One who sells meats.
  • n. One that kills brutally or indiscriminately.
  • n. A vendor, especially one on a train or in a theater.
  • n. One who bungles something.
  • v. To slaughter or prepare (animals) for market.
  • v. To kill brutally or indiscriminately.
  • v. To botch; bungle: butcher a project; butchered the language.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • n. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • n. A look.
  • n. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
  • v. To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
  • v. To kill brutally.
  • v. To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
  • n. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
  • v. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market.
  • v. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
  • v. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. One who slaughters animals for market; one whose occupation is the killing of animals for food.“
  • n. An executioner.
  • n. One who kills in a cruel or bloody manner; one guilty of indiscriminate slaughter.
  • n. Figuratively, an unskilful workman or performer; a bungler; a botch.
  • To kill or slaughter for food or for market.
  • To murder, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
  • Figuratively, to treat bunglingly; make a botch of; spoil by bad work: as, to butcher a job; the play was butchered by the actors.
  • n. A long drink of beer.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
  • n. a retailer of meat
  • n. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
  • v. kill (animals) usually for food consumption
  • n. a brutal indiscriminate murderer
  • Verb Form
    butchered    butchering    butchers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Cross Reference
    murder    spoil    bungle    mangle    butcher's cleaver    butcher's broom   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    baker    grocer    carpenter    tailor    tradesman    shoemaker    blacksmith    barber    farmer    dealer