All butcher synonyms

verb butcher

• ruin — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
• slaughter — Frank, 1908–2001, U.S. novelist and physician.
• mutilate — to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts: Vandals mutilated the painting.
• cut — If you cut something, you use a knife or a similar tool to divide it into pieces, or to mark it or damage it. If you cut a shape or a hole in something, you make the shape or hole by using a knife or similar tool.
• clean — Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
• liquidate — to settle or pay (a debt): to liquidate a claim.
• salt — See under Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
• joint — the place at which two things, or separate parts of one thing, are joined or united, either rigidly or in such a way as to permit motion; juncture.
• cure — If doctors or medical treatments cure an illness or injury, they cause it to end or disappear.
• stick — a thrust with a pointed instrument; stab.
• smoke — the visible vapor and gases given off by a burning or smoldering substance, especially the gray, brown, or blackish mixture of gases and suspended carbon particles resulting from the combustion of wood, peat, coal, or other organic matter.
• carve — If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
• dress — an outer garment for women and girls, consisting of bodice and skirt in one piece.
• destroy — To destroy something means to cause so much damage to it that it is completely ruined or does not exist any more.
• wreck — any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
• spoil — to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
• botch — If you botch something that you are doing, you do it badly or clumsily.
• beef up — If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
• cut down — If you cut down on something or cut down something, you use or do less of it.
• screw up — a metal fastener having a tapered shank with a helical thread, and topped with a slotted head, driven into wood or the like by rotating, especially by means of a screwdriver.
• louse up — any small, wingless insect of the order Anoplura (sucking louse) parasitic on humans and other mammals and having mouthparts adapted for sucking, as Pediculus humanus (body louse or head louse) and Phthirius pubis (crab louse or pubic louse)
• goof up — to blunder; make an error, misjudgment, etc.