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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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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

The 1987 movie features Schwarzenegger’s Dutch leading a multiracial band of bros on a black ops mission to eliminate guerrillas in a Central American jungle, only to be butchered by an invisible stalker from space.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2025

Louis Bielle-Biarrey, scorer of two tries, butchered another with a nonchalant pass slung over the top of Peato Mauvaka.

From BBC • Feb. 8, 2025

Right there in the wood, we kindled a fire and butchered the boar.

From "Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village" by Laura Amy Schlitz