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View definitions for butchered

butchered

verb as in slay and prepare animal for meat

verb as in ruin

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A 9-year-old girl who fell in love with the goat she raised for the Shasta District Fair was heartbroken when deputies, wielding a search warrant, confiscated the furry livestock, taking him away to be butchered.

Its carcass has since been ferried in a canoe to the palace of one of the Emir of Yauri's high-ranking administrators, where it has been butchered and its meat given to those in local community.

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Since 2020, Mr Whittington has told detailed and distressing stories about the children he has allegedly supported at PRC's Kenya rescue centre - including siblings who had watched their parents being butchered by traffickers.

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Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

Who butchered the goat and who ended up with its meat?

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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