butchered

4 definitions • 7 examples

past simple and past participle of

to kill or cut up an animal for meat:

He raises pigs and butchers his own meat.

This is where farmers brought their livestock to be butchered.

The truck was transporting freshly butchered chickens.

to kill people in a very violent way or in large numbers:

He butchered thousands of people.

Unarmed civilians are being butchered by the occupying forces.

to spoil something completely by performing or dealing with it very badly:

He complained that TV screenwriters had butchered his story.

I couldn't bear to hear our national anthem being butchered like that.