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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
butcher
n 1: a retailer of meat [syn: butcher, meatman]
2: a brutal indiscriminate murderer
3: a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market [syn:
butcher, slaughterer]
4: someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence [syn:
bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler,
sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup]
v 1: kill (animals) usually for food consumption; "They
slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter" [syn:
butcher, slaughter]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Butcher \Butch"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Butchered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Butchering.]
1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;
as, to butcher hogs.
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2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or
barbarous manner. --Macaulay.
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[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.
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3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is
damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as,
the new choir butchered the hymn.
Syn: mangle. [PJC] butcher-bird
butcher bird
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Butcher \Butch"er\ (b[.u]ch"[~e]r), n. [OE. bochere, bochier,
OF. bochier, F. boucher, orig., slaughterer of buck goats,
fr. OF. boc, F. bouc, a buck goat; of German or Celtic
origin. See Buck the animal.]
1. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for
market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for
food.
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2. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with
unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as
in battle. "Butcher of an innocent child." --Shak.
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Butcher's meat, such flesh of animals slaughtered for food
as is sold for that purpose by butchers, as beef, mutton,
lamb, and pork.
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Thesaurus Results for Butcher:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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