butcher
noun
a retail or wholesale dealer in meat.
had butchered
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past perfectof butcher.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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But France had butchered numerous try-scoring opportunities in a surprise defeat by England at Allianz Stadium last time out, and looked intent on making amends.
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2025
Cooks who had butchered a huge bull prepared food for a feast for hundreds of people.
From Reuters ● Aug. 9, 2022
They were going to win, even if it required her nailing a Britney-inspired move she had butchered for the better part of four years.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2018
She was planning to give her pastor venison next week, from a deer Breiten Ramsey had shot and his father had butchered, because she knew he loved the meat.
From Washington Post
The Senate consented, and Domitian's wife, not wishing to leave to posterity a memorial of the brutality of those who had butchered her husband, adopted the following plan.
From The Secret History of the Court of Justinian by Procopius
