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butch·er
 butcher
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- pronunciation:
- bU
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- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
someone in the business of selling meat.
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| definition 2: |
someone who prepares animals for sale as meat by killing or dressing them.
- synonyms:
- meatpacker, slaughterer
- similar words:
- cutter, trimmer
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| definition 3: |
someone who has committed many, or extremely vicious, murders.
- synonyms:
- Bluebeard, cutthroat, homicide, killer, murderer
- similar words:
- destroyer, exterminator, scourge
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
butchers, butchering, butchered |
| definition 1: |
to kill or dress in preparation for sale or use as meat.
- synonyms:
- dress, kill, slaughter
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| definition 2: |
to murder viciously or indiscriminately.
- synonyms:
- decimate, kill, massacre, murder, slaughter, slay
- similar words:
- annihilate, brutalize, eradicate, exterminate, ruin, savage
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| definition 3: |
to do badly; bungle.
He butchered that paint job.- synonyms:
- botch, bungle, murder, spoil
- similar words:
- fumble, hack, mar, muddle
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| related words: |
bungle, slash, slaughter |
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| derivation: |
butcherer (n.) |
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