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Antonyms for butcher
ˈbʊtʃ ərbutch·er
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term butcher.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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.
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assassinate, despatch, execute, kill, massacre, murder, put to death, slaughter, slayPreposition:
To kill with or by sword, famine, pestilence, care, grief, etc.; killed for his money, by a robber, with a dagger.
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butcher, meatmannoun
a retailer of meat
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bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumblerbutchernoun
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
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bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumblerbutcher, slaughterernoun
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
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bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumblerbungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckupverb
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
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bloomer, blunderer, botcher, bungle, flub, blooper, stumbler, tripper, pratfall, fumbler, foul-up, sad sack, meatman, boo-boo, blunder, bumbler, slaughterer, boner, botch, bunglerbutcher, slaughterverb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
butcherverb
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slaughter
How to use butcher in a sentence?
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Not only did he (Van) butcher him, but then he threw his reputation and his good name out the window by alleging him to be a rapist.
I'm not a good butcher but I've had to learn to carve the joint. People expect a new look.
At the moment there's a risk that someone standing in front of a greengrocer and a butcher's shop will only go into the former, but they should be shopping in both, because our meat is good.
Qassem Soleimani said. That was under Irans Shiite shah, toppled in the 1979 revolution. But even after, Iran fought off other outbreaks, and its hospitals, doctors and nurses are known as some of the best in the wider Middle East, with a network of clinics from villages to big cities. However, the system appears to be stretching at the seams, with online videos purporting to show field hospitals going up. Meanwhile, Irans Shiite 80 million people, whose sense of high risk has been dulled by years of international isolation, crowd into grocery stores and butcher shops, suspicious of anything in the state media. Nowruz, the Persian New Year, looms on Friday, a holiday when millions travel. The government repeatedly has stopped short of ordering any major travel restrictions. It hasnt explained why, but there could be worry about further angering its people or slowing down its anemic, sanctions-hurt economy. Online videos show Iranians ignoring government demands to stay home and moving instead toward the coast of the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf. Residents of hard-hit Rasht, on Irans Shiite coast, have threatened to attack out-of-towners. We expect that, God willing, we can contain the rising trend of the disease, not the disease itself, by March 26, but I say this very frankly : if the great people dont cooperate, the disease will continue to be there until late May or even in June, and turn into a huge crisis. CLICK HERE FOR MORE CORONAVIRUS COVERAGE And the man who once called quarantines a thing of the past added :.
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