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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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Add to the fact that they butchered a clutch of chances in last year's loss at Twickenham and there is plenty to put right for France.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

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

Then Macklin skinned and butchered the dogs for meat and brought them back to camp.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong