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butchered

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Verb

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butchered

  1. simple past and past participle of butcher

Adjective

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butchered (not comparable)

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

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