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Meaning of butchered

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

butchered

verb

Definitions

  1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

    Synonyms:killslaughter

  2. To kill brutally.

    Synonyms:massacreslay

  3. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

    Example: The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".

    Synonyms:murder

adjective

Definitions

  1. (of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.

  2. (by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or distorted beyond recognition.

    Example: a butchered translation of Horace

Sources:https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butcherhttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/butchered

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