butchered

English

Verb

butchered

  1. simple past tense and past participle of butcher

Adjective

butchered (not comparable)

  1. (of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.
  2. (by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figuratively) distorted beyond recognition.
    a butchered translation of Horace
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