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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Butcher \Butch"er\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Butchered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Butchering}.]
1. To kill or slaughter (animals) for food, or for market; as, to butcher hogs.
2. To murder, or kill, especially in an unusually bloody or barbarous manner. --Macaulay.
[Ithocles] was murdered, rather butchered. --Ford.
3. to bungle badly; to botch; -- used also when an object is damaged (literally or figuratively) in an activity; as, the new choir butchered the hymn.
Syn: mangle. [PJC]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "butchered": botched, bungled, castrated, cut short, docked, fumbled, garbled, hashed, ill-advised, ill-considered, ill-contrived, ill-devised, ill-done, ill-executed, ill-managed, impolitic, lopped, mangled, misconducted, misdirected, misguided, mismanaged, muffed, murdered, mutilated, negligent, spoiled, truncated
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