Butchered
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Butcher \Butch"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Butchered}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Butchering}.]
1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;
as, to butcher hogs.
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2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or
barbarous manner. --Macaulay.
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[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.
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3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is
damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as,
the new choir butchered the hymn.
Syn: mangle. [PJC] butcher-bird
butcher bird
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "butchered":
botched, bungled, castrated, cut short, docked, fumbled, garbled,
hashed, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised,
ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, lopped, mangled,
misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered,
mutilated, negligent, spoiled, truncated
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