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butcher English

Meaning butcher meaning

What does butcher mean?
Definitions in simple English

butcher Noun

— A butcher is a person who kills and prepares animals as meat. The butcher killed the pig and made bacon. — A butcher is a person who kills in a violent way. was a crazy butcher of women.

butcher Verb

— If you butcher an animal, you kill it and cut it up into meat. He had to butcher the sheep to get chops for his dinner.

butcher

— verb (= slaughter) kill (animals) usually for food consumption They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter — noun a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market — noun a brutal indiscriminate murderer — noun a retailer of meat — noun (= bungler) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence

Synonyms butcher synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as butcher?

butcher English » English

slaughter slaughterer kill massacre skin killer slay murderer meatman cut slaughterman murder gut cut up chop assassin stumbler slayer sad sack hangman fumbler fuckup dissect defeat cut open bungler bumbler botcher blunderer behead win over weaken vanquish use up tranquilize take down tackle surmount still soothe slit open slice slaughterhouse worker skin an animal shoot dead shoot sacrificer sacrifice remove skin quiten

Topics butcher topics

What do people use butcher to talk about?
Work and occupation Animal husbandry

Butcher, slaughter
Person Life Die

Kill
Daily life Food

Food preparation
Work and occupation Hunt and fish

Things done to animals
Work and occupation

Occupation
Daily life Food Food preparation

Cooking utensil
Work and occupation Tool

Cutting tool

Conjugation butcher conjugation

How do you conjugate butcher?

butcher · verb

Examples butcher examples

How do I use butcher in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I already went to the butcher's shop this morning.
This used to be a butcher shop.
A butcher deals in meat.
The butcher shop sells assorted cuts of meat.
He's a butcher.
For kosher meat I go to the butcher of my choice.
This used to be a butcher's shop.
We cannot allow them to butcher us like sheep.
The butcher's shop is open.
A lamb at the butcher's?
I asked the butcher to trim all the fat off of the meat.
The butcher ground the meat.
The bakery is located next to the butcher shop.
He's not a surgeon, but a butcher.
The bakery is near the butcher shop.
The butcher shop is closed.
Tom is a butcher, isn't he?

Movie subtitles

He's in your face even, but. he's a teddy bear. He might be a butcher, but he wouldn't hurt a fly.
I'm a butcher.
Dubois buys meat from the local butcher who holds the highest standards.
I am going to the butcher, Father.
He's a butcher.
You're a butcher.
Paul Pons versus Raoul the Butcher.
That's for the opening of a butcher shop, sir.
I'm the butcher, madame.
And this is no butcher shop.
My husband was, but I'm English. and you were going to butcher her in cold blood.
So the lamb killed the butcher.
Look, Sir, the butcher. - The butcher, the baker! You are an idiot!
Let me do it instead of that butcher.
He's not a butcher, he's a barber.
Hadjouts will butcher you.
He who was the first to call for an uprising, fell at the hands of a butcher.
I was on the way to pay the butcher on Tuesday. as Honesty Nuttall is my name, when I chanced on a poor old beggar.
Oh but now we can have the most wonderful diner. My dear love, I was shocked at the butcher's bill.
The butcher said it was the very best mutton.
Murdering butcher!
See that, you butcher?
You were going to butcher her in cold blood.
You must get in line to the butcher!
I have to stay in line for the butcher.
Maybe the butcher will give me something, if I kindly ask him.
The butcher Willi from downstairs.
Because they have Jack the Ripper, Burke and Hare. the Mad Butcher. the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, things that people pay to see!
Paul Pons versus Raoul the Butcher. En garde!
I'll go back to working at the butcher's shop.
Our butcher sends us the most inconsiderate chickens.
You're a butcher, sure. Why don't you leave me forget you?
Seems they've had one from the butcher too.
There were so many tumbling in. It was butcher's work.

News and current affairs

After gaining Security Council support, the US, Europe, and some Arab countries began doing exactly what should be expected of the international community when a government is preparing to butcher its own citizens: prevent the slaughter.
If Romania's peasants come to believe that the EU insists that they hug their pigs, not butcher them with knives, their fidelity towards the social democrats will wither.
While it has allowed US President Barack Obama to back down from his threat of military intervention in response to the regime's use of chemical weapons, it has also allowed Assad to continue to butcher his people.

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