butchered

past tense of butcher

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of butchered Bad books have been made into great movies, and many great books have been butchered on the screen. Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025 Multiple other locations in central Italy have butchered elephant remains, small stone tools, and larger modified bones. Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 8 Oct. 2025 Reese tried that one, too, but butchered it when his lean came well into the end zone. Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025 There were also rumors of things going missing from farm sheds, and animals being butchered for their meat overnight in farmers’ paddocks. Todd Symons, CNN Money, 9 Sep. 2025 That is to say, more chickens are bred and butchered each year than there are alive at this very moment in time. Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025 Criticism rained down on the city from animal rights groups and residents fearful of seeing animals being sloppily butchered in broad daylight in their neighbor’s yard. John Carlisle, Freep.com, 31 May 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for butchered
Verb
  • Giving up 1,700 terrorist hostages from Israel, basically create a potential pathway to statehood, because of an invasion two years ago that slaughtered Israelis, there's a lot here that still has to play out.
    NBC news, NBC news, 5 Oct. 2025
  • In 2022, producers slaughtered more beef cows than ever before in the USDA recordkeeping.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 22 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Coleman fumbled away his first catch in that game, at Buffalo’s 10-yard line, gifting New England a free field goal in a three-point game.
    Tim Graham, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels fumbled a handoff late in the fourth quarter and allowed the Bears’ defense to recover.
    Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The emotions as referee Thomas Bramall blew the final whistle, confirming Wrexham’s first defeat in five Championship games, provided a stark contrast.
    Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • But Holmes blew through his cash, spending much of it on expensive cars.
    Luke Cyphers, Sportico.com, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Most American women who deal with domestic violence and are murdered, are murdered by their intimate partner.
    Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 15 Oct. 2025
  • The Sandy Hook massacre, in which 26 people were murdered, including 20 children, generated new debate over gun violence legislation, but Congress took no action.
    Ted Johnson, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The Ed Gein Story jumps around in time, in part to make connections to the other adaptations and in part because the biographical chronology is so mangled that any distraction is welcome.
    Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Verb
  • This is the uniform in which DesRochers greets me at the nucleus of her sprawling entrepreneurial pursuits that are dubbed The Gratitude Collective, her brick home sitting high atop a hill in Avondale.
    Grace Tucker, Cincinnati Enquirer, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Tsung-Dao Lee Institute conducted the sea trial of a device dubbed the Subsea Precision Instrument Deployer with Elastic Releasing (Spider).
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Back in January, Preston remembered filming My Best Friend’s Wedding — and how an iconic scene ruined crab and lobster for her.
    Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 14 Oct. 2025
  • All the beautiful lines have been ruined.
    Sean Evans, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Civilian infrastructure—roads, sewage, electricity, and municipal services—has been destroyed.
    Mohammed R. Mhawish, New Yorker, 14 Oct. 2025
  • One police cruiser was destroyed by flames and needed to be towed away from the area, officials said.
    Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2025

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“Butchered.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/butchered. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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