Synonyms for butcher

noun

1. A meat dealer

   meat seller, meat vendor, slaughterer, processor, skinner, boner, cutter, proprietor of a meat market, pig-sticker*; see also businessperson, merchant.

2. A killer

   murderer, slaughter, cutthroat, mass murderer; see criminal, killer.

verb

1. To prepare animals for human consumption

   slaughter, stick, pack, dress, clean, cure, smoke, salt, cut, put up, carve, trim.

2. To kill inhumanly

   slaughter, slay, massacre; see kill 1.

3. *To ruin

   botch, mutilate, spoil, wreck; see botch, destroy 1.