'Butchered' definitions:
Definition of 'Butchered'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- [Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford. [1913 Webster]
- 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
Synonyms of 'butchered'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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