1. (noun)butcher, meatman a retailer of meat Synonyms: bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, butcher, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumbler
2. (noun)butcher a brutal indiscriminate murderer Synonyms: bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumbler
3. (noun)butcher, slaughterer a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market Synonyms: bungler, fumbler, botcher, meatman, sad sack, butcher, stumbler, blunderer, slaughterer, bumbler
4. (verb)bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, butcher, fuckup someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence Synonyms: bloomer, blunderer, botcher, bungle, butcher, flub, blooper, stumbler, tripper, pratfall, fumbler, foul-up, sad sack, meatman, boo-boo, blunder, bumbler, slaughterer, boner, botch, bungler
5. (verb)butcher, slaughter kill (animals) usually for food consumption Synonyms: butcher, massacre, mow down, slaughter
Synonyms, Thesaurus & Antonyms of 'butcher'
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 k Synonyms: kill, assassinate, despatch, massacre, put to death, slay, butcher, execute, murder, slaughter