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.

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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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1. Franklin Graham:

   Not only do they kill and butcher and rape Christians and burn churches and crucify Christians, but they turn on each other and kill each other, this is something our country is going to have to come to grips with.

2. Gainesville Police Chief Jay Parrish:

   The student who immediately reported this to school officials saved lives, she had written down how she wanted to do it, the best way to do it. She had procured some butcher knives, kitchen knives to do the attack with.

3. 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.

4. E. M. Cioran:

   Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

5. 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.