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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of machete.

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Examples

  • Jed has been shot, stabbed, clubbed, axed, macheted, devoured by a wolf (actually, a “she-wolf”), and another time bludgeoned to death by a giant crayon, and has had his arm torn off by a stripper.

    Inbred Jed 2009

  • Then, just when we thought we'd seen it all, Evil Stewie ran off into the street and macheted a motorist in half, lengthwise, to give us a grisly peek at the woman's eviscerated innards.

    Watercooler: Did Family Guy Go Too Far? 2011

  • Meanwhile, gruesome images of people being set alight and macheted are an all too grim reminder of the unprecedented anger among a divided population that won't simply disappear when their leader is forced from the presidential palace.

    Let women lead the way to peace in Africa | Mariella Frostrup 2011

  • Jed has been shot, stabbed, clubbed, axed, macheted, devoured by a wolf (actually, a “she-wolf”), and another time bludgeoned to death by a giant crayon, and has had his arm torn off by a stripper.

    Inbred Jed 2009

  • Suspected informants succumbed to similar fates—beaten, burned, shot, macheted, and disembowled, their dripping innards left hanging from tree limbs as a warning to others.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • And, we are told, that far from this being a bold solo enterprise undertaken at the risk of being macheted to death by outraged Peckhamians or decked by gauchos wielding boleadoras, she was, in fact, accompanied by a burly ‘close protection officer’.

    Archive 2008-01-20 2008

  • And in Rwanda I was faced forward of human rights abuses: dead bodies piled on the side of the road, dead and dying babies on the side of the road, picking up infants that I thought were survivable to try and resuscitate, taking care of an orphanage, taking care of refugees who were macheted, who lost arms, hands, had ball-peen hammers put through their heads.

    Women Who Dared - Lynn Amowitz on PATH TO ACTIVISM 2010

  • And, we are told, that far from this being a bold solo enterprise undertaken at the risk of being macheted to death by outraged Peckhamians or decked by gauchos wielding boleadoras, she was, in fact, accompanied by a burly ‘close protection officer’.

    Pooh-Bah Ventures Out 2008

  • Suspected informants succumbed to similar fates—beaten, burned, shot, macheted, and disembowled, their dripping innards left hanging from tree limbs as a warning to others.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • Suspected informants succumbed to similar fates—beaten, burned, shot, macheted, and disembowled, their dripping innards left hanging from tree limbs as a warning to others.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

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    March 18, 2011