Dictionary Entry
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
- 1noun
One who slaughters animals, or dresses their flesh for market; one whose occupation it is to kill animals for food.
- 2noun
A slaughterer; one who kills in large numbers, or with unusual cruelty; one who causes needless loss of life, as in battle.
- 3transitive verb
To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
- 4transitive verb
To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner.
- 5noun
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
- 6noun
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
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- 7noun
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
- 8noun
a retailer of meat
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- 9verb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
"They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter"
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