adjective
butchered
adjective
1
Cut apart the way a butcher would prepare meat.
"The freshly butchered meat was hung to cure."
2
Badly ruined or distorted.
"His name was completely butchered in the announcement."
How to Use Butchered
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishEither literally cut up as meat, or figuratively ruined/mispronounced/mangled.
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