Butchered

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Butcher \Butch"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Butchered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Butchering}.]
     1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market;
        as, to butcher hogs.
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     2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or
        barbarous manner. --Macaulay.
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              [Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.
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     3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is
        damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as,
        the new choir butchered the hymn.
  
     Syn: mangle. [PJC] butcher-bird
          butcher bird

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "butchered":
     botched, bungled, castrated, cut short, docked, fumbled, garbled,
     hashed, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised,
     ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, lopped, mangled,
     misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered,
     mutilated, negligent, spoiled, truncated