Butcher

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. One who slaughters and dresses animals for food or market.
  • noun. One who sells meats.
  • noun. One that kills brutally or indiscriminately.
  • noun. A vendor, especially one on a train or in a theater.
  • noun. One who bungles something.
  • transitive verb. To slaughter or prepare (animals) for market.
  • transitive verb. To kill brutally or indiscriminately.
  • transitive verb. To botch; bungle: synonym: botch.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who slaughters animals for market; one whose occupation is the killing of animals for food.“
  • noun. An executioner.
  • noun. One who kills in a cruel or bloody manner; one guilty of indiscriminate slaughter.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. A long drink of beer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
  • noun. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
  • noun. such flesh of animals slaughtered for food as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton, lamb, and pork.
  • transitive verb. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market.
  • transitive verb. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
  • transitive verb. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
  • noun. A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
  • noun. A look.
  • noun. A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
  • verb. To slaughter animals and prepare meat for market.
  • verb. To kill brutally.
  • verb. To ruin something, often to the point of defamation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
  • noun. a retailer of meat
  • noun. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
  • verb. kill (animals) usually for food consumption
  • noun. a brutal indiscriminate murderer
  • Word Usage
    "God never intended to make the _butcher_ a judge, nor the _baker_ a president, but to protect them according to their claims as butcher and baker."
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