butcheredadj.
/ˈbʊtʃəd/, U.S. /ˈbʊtʃərd/ 1.
a. That has been killed in a brutal manner; slaughtered indiscriminately. Cf. butcher v. 1a.
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the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [adjective] > slaughtered
snetched1567
butchered1584
massacred1590
slaughtered1594
carnaged1796
shambled1900
pogromed1918
1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. H4v Who could willingly abide, to see the butchered bodies of their deare friendes, before their eyes.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III v. v. 76 The wronged soules Of Butchered princes fight in thy behalfe. View more context for this quotation
1682 E. Settle Absalom Senior 13 Thus in a Ditch the butcher'd Amnon lay.
1787 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 170/1 He beholds the butchered remains of his once loved friend, embalmed in the tears of the disconsolate mourner.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. xi. 191 The remains of their butchered leader.
1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 70 Ellen..dug a grave in the sand, and buried her butchered husband.
1954 Life 6 Sept. 16/2 The ghosts of the butchered First Battalion Gloucesters (569 out of 700 were lost just north of Seoul).
1999 Daily Mirror (Nexis) 6 Oct. 15 Finally, with the bodies of his butchered family lying nearby, he hanged himself from a stair bannister.
b. Of an animal: that has been slaughtered for food, and (usually also) cut into sections in preparation for eating; (of a carcass, meat, etc.) cut into sections or pieces in preparation for eating. Cf. butcher v. 3.
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1770 E. Bancroft Hist. Charles Wentworth III. v. 87 I have often felt both pain and horror..at seeing the carcasses of butchered animals that fill every London market.
1866 M. A. Barker Let. July in Station Life N.Z. (1870) x. 64 The ‘gallows’,—a high wooden frame from which the carcases of the butchered sheep dangle.
1889 City Charter & Ordinances City South St. Paul 101 No person shall keep a butcher shop or butcher stall to sell or vend flesh or butchered meat..without having first obtained a license.
1988 Atlantic Insight Jan. 34/1 The European penchant for utilizing all parts of a butchered farm animal.
2013 A. Miller Soul Food vi. 97 Hog killings took place when the weather was cold enough to keep the butchered meat from spoiling.
2. Ruined intentionally or through incompetence; distorted; mutilated; debased. Cf. butcher v. 1b(a).
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [adjective] > destroyed
forwroughta1325
lorna1400
destroyedc1440
perishedc1440
shentc1440
defeatc1540
spiltc1540
dissolved?1541
interempt1561
baned1568
mischievedc1570
defeated1578
ruined1585
downcast1592
gone1598
collapsed1610
to take up for hawks' meat1612
naughta1616
blasted1747
wreckeda1821
butchered1839
fucked-up1863
kaput1895
piled-up1906
shambled1940
1839 L. J. McCormick Document Prevention Explosions Steam Boilers 1 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (25th Congr., 3rd Sess.: Senate Doc. 217) III Very unfortunately for this butchered vocation, there are already too many of this stamp engaged in it.
1896 Rural New-Yorker 29 Feb. 141/1 All of your readers..must, at some time, have been surprised at the superior growth of certain ‘butchered’ trees which they were tempted to discard.
1940 Daily Texan (Univ. Texas, Austin) 19 Apr. 4/7 I hope that they were made to suffer with the rest of us by having to dance to that butchered music.
1978 D. Bevington & J. L. Halio Shakespeare Pattern of excelling Nature (1979) 246 But if it was all pure Shakespeare, it was still a butchered script.
2000 G. Duncan Love Remains (2001) i. 3 Nicholas's cab driver..had honked and yelled out of the window and..sworn in butchered English.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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