Hyphenation of butcher

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word butcher? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

butch-er

Definitions of butcher:

1.	A retailer of meat
2.	A brutal indiscriminate murderer
3.	A person who slaughters or dresses meat for market
4.	Someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence
5.	Kill (animals) usually for food consumption They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter

Synonyms of butcher:

noun	meatman, merchant, merchandiser
noun	murderer, liquidator, manslayer
noun	slaughterer, skilled worker, trained worker
noun	bungler, blunderer, fumbler, bumbler, stumbler, sad sack, botcher, fuckup, incompetent, incompetent person
verb	slaughter, kill

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Hyphenator

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