butcher
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
a retailer of meat
Types & categories
- merchant hypernym
- pork butcher hyponym
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
Sense 2 verb
kill (animals) usually for food consumption
They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
- massacre derivation
- butchering derivation
- butchery derivation
- slaughterer derivation
- butcher derivation
- cut entails
Sense 3 noun
a brutal indiscriminate murderer
Types & categories
- liquidator hypernym
Sense 4 noun
a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
Types & categories
- skilled worker hypernym
- knacker hyponym
Related & opposite
- slaughter derivation
Sense 5 noun
someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
Types & categories
- incompetent hypernym
Related & opposite
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | merchant |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pork butcher |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | massacre |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | butchering |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | butchery |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughterer |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | butcher |
| 2 | entails | Related & opposite | cut |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | kill |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | chine |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | liquidator |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | slaughter |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | skilled worker |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | knacker |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bungle |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | slip up |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | bobble |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | blunder |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | butcherly |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | incompetent |