butchered

English

Verb

butchered

1. simple past and past participle of butcher

Adjective

butchered (not comparable)

1. (of an animal) Taken apart professionally, as a butcher might.
2. (by extension) Taken apart, destroyed or (figurative) distorted beyond recognition.

   a butchered translation of Horace

Synonyms

• (distorted) bastardized, debased, degraded

Derived terms

• unbutchered