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/ˈbʊt͡ʃə/ · noun
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals)..
He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
Butcher of an innocent child.
He tells me he now earns three times as much as he did butchering.
The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
I am bad at pronouncing names, so my apologies if I butcher any of your names.
Weaver and Shaw dance together and almost immediately another butch, an even butcher butch (Leslie Feinberg), cuts in to dance with Shaw (though Shaw would kill me if she heard me call someone a butcher butch).
Use butcher when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Butcher means A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals)..
Common synonyms include flesher, slayer, mayhemist, kill.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
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