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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of butcher.

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Examples

  • He's a good actor, better than some idiot Hollywood actors, who don't have their name butchered! juiceless

    Inglourious Basterds Viral: Nation’s Pride Movie Trailer | /Film 2009

  • Tired of having her name butchered by colleagues, she interrupted a House Revenue and Taxation Committee meeting Monday to offer a little phonetic direction on the northern Swiss surname she took when she married her husband, Jim.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • Bottom = me, a young woman in a nearby town, and her son BRIAN. poor kid will have his name butchered his whole life, unless he shortens 'buhlayani' into 'bula' which is actually a common nickname...

    Archive 2006-09-01 2006

  • Bottom = me, a young woman in a nearby town, and her son BRIAN. poor kid will have his name butchered his whole life, unless he shortens 'buhlayani' into 'bula' which is actually a common nickname...

    ghetto fab 2006

  • So, first of all, have I got your name butchered, or is that right?

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Election 2000: What Will U.S. Supreme Court Decide? - December 10, 2000 2000

  • You just can’t beat Northern European humor in butchered english.

    ‘TEETH’ STILL LOOKS WEIRD 2008

  • It’s not uncommon to see Chinese immigrants adopted “English” names, and I appreciate how this detail was woven into the story, the roll call experience of getting your name butchered and asking to be called something else instead to avoid this. fyi, Xing asks to be called Kris in this situation.

    Review: Crossing by Andrew Xia Fukuda Ah Yuan // wingstodust 2010

  • Breaks my heart that the little guy had his name butchered by his kindergarten and first grade teachers.

    Perez Hilton Mike & Juliet Video: Perez Hilton “Morning Show With Mike & Juliet” Video 2008

  • Here's one of the four snippets I made, showing tablet weaving in twill structure, done with modern weaving tools also known as butchered playing cards.

    Do we have a Video? a stitch in time 2009

  • Here's one of the four snippets I made, showing tablet weaving in twill structure, done with modern weaving tools also known as butchered playing cards.

    Archive 2009-07-01 a stitch in time 2009

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