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butcher

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of butcher

someone who bungles an effort

  • the newest intern on the campaign is a butcher when it comes to writing press releases
Synonyms of butcher

blunderbuss, blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fumbler, screwup
Words Related to butcher

incompetent, muddler
Near Antonyms of butcher

ace, adept, crackerjack (also crackajack), expert, maestro, master, virtuoso, wizard

butcher

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of butcher

1 to kill on a large scale

  • the barbarians butchered the monks in the monasteries without mercy
Synonyms of butcher

massacre, mow (down), slaughter
Words Related to butcher

assassinate, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, fell, murder, slay, smite, snuff

annihilate, blot out, decimate, demolish, destroy, devastate, eradicate, exterminate, waste, wipe out

2 to make or do (something) in a clumsy or unskillful way

  • the new piano student butchered the sonatina
Synonyms of butcher

blow, bobble, boggle, bollix (up), boot, botch, bugger (up), bumble, bungle, dub, flub, fluff, foozle, foul up, fumble, goof (up), louse up, mangle, mess (up), muck up, muff, murder, screw up
Words Related to butcher

blunder, gum (up), muddle, piffle

blemish, blight, damage, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, mutilate, ruin, spoil, vitiate

destroy, wreck

mishandle, mismanage
Near Antonyms of butcher

ameliorate, better, enhance, help, improve, meliorate, rectify, refine, reform, remedy

doctor, fix, patch, recondition, renovate, repair, revamp

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