butcher

butcher is a 7-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
2. noun. A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
3. transitive verb. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
4. transitive verb. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
5. noun. someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

   Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, stumbler

6. noun. a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market

   Synonyms: slaughterer

7. noun. a brutal indiscriminate murderer
8. noun. a retailer of meat

   Synonyms: meatman

9. verb. kill (animals) usually for food consumption

   "They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"

   Synonyms: slaughter

Synonyms

blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, stumbler, slaughterer, meatman, slaughter

Common word forms

butchers, butchered, butcherer, butcherly, butchering, butcherous, butcherless

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