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butchered

VERB

slay and prepare animal for meat

Synonyms

STRONGEST

slaughter

STRONG

carve clean cure cut dress joint liquidate salt smoke stick

WEAK

beef up cut down

VERB

ruin

Synonyms

STRONGEST

mutilate

STRONG

botch destroy spoil wreck

WEAK

bollix up goof up louse up make a mess of screw up

Antonyms

STRONG

build create repair

Example Sentences

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Animal remains were also placed in the grave, including a butchered calf.

From Science Daily • Mar. 9, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

In 2024, Shasta County agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a 9-year-old girl and her family after sheriff’s deputies seized her goat so it could be butchered.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 11, 2025

She says she has been left with a massive scar which has left her feeling "butchered".

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

“Man, those singer guys just bombed so hard. I mean, they utterly and totally butchered ‘Hotel California,”’ Ashish said, walking in with two bottles of water.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon