Butchered vs Battered - What's the difference?
butchered | battered |
(butcher)
A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
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(by extension) A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
* Shakespeare
(Cockney rhyming slang, from butcher's hook) A look.
(informal, obsolete) A person who sells candy, drinks, etc. in theatres, trains, circuses, etc.
To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.
To kill brutally.
To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.
(batter)
Beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.
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, title= Beaten repeatedly or consistently; beaten up.
(label) Coated with batter.
As verbs the difference between butchered and battered
is that butchered is past tense of butcher while battered is past tense of batter.As an adjective battered is
beaten up through a lot of use; in rough condition; weathered, beat-up.butchered
English
Verb
(head)butcher
English
(wikipedia butcher)Noun
(en noun)- He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days...
- Butcher of an innocent child.
Derived terms
* * butcher's hook * pork butcherVerb
(en verb)- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
Synonyms
* kill, slaughter * (kill brutally) massacre, slay * murderbattered
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)The Three Corpse Trick, chapter=5 , passage=The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered -looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.}}