butcher[noun]Synonyms:- murderer, destroyer, killer, slaughterer, slayer
[verb]Synonyms:- slaughter, carve, clean, cut, cut up, dress, joint, prepare
- kill, assassinate, cut down, destroy, exterminate, liquidate, massacre, put to the sword, slaughter, slay
[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲
I. butch‧er1 S3 /ˈbʊtʃə $ -ər/
noun[
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;
Origin: bouchier, from bouc 'male goat']
1. [countable] someone who owns or works in a shop that sells meat
2. the butcher’s a shop where you can buy meat
3. [countable] someone who has killed someone else cruelly and unnecessarily, especially someone who has killed a lot of people
4. have/take a butcher’s British English spoken informal to have a look at something
[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲
II. butcher2 verb [transitive]1. to kill animals and prepare them to be used as meat
2. to kill someone cruelly or unnecessarily, especially to kill a lot of people
3. informal to spoil something by working carelessly:
That hairdresser really butchered my hair! [TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲