What are some opposite words for butcher?
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?
In order to be able to use animal resources, they needed to have tools in order to cut and butcher.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, cone 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.
'Butcher' seemed a very appropriate way to get that into the minds of people.
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Tommy You can take a good look at a T-bone by sticking your head up a bull's ass, but wouldn't you rather take the butcher's word for it
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