butchered
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butchered
verb
- simple past and past participle of butcher
adjective
- Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.
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Taken apart, destroyed or (figurative) distorted beyond recognition.
a butchered translation of Horace
Similar: bastardized
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: slaughterer, meatman, slaughter, botcher, bumbler, blunderer, bungler, sad sack, fumbler, slaughtered, killed, murdered, massacred, beefed out, out-and-out, rounded up
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title = {butchered},
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