What is "butchered"

Usage examples of "butchered".

He even saw the partially butchered black bear carcass that Dagro Blackhail had brought down yesterday in the sedge meadow to the east.

It smelled of passing centuries, mildew, butchered carcasses, and slowly rotting things.

You, who have slain children in cold blood and butchered three of my warriors so badly that I could not let the widows tend their corpses.

Ever since the war started, he butchered hogs with his own hands and poured their blood on the smoke fires to make them burn thick and long.

Ark Veinsplitter pulled a partially butchered goat carcass in from the snow, while the Naysayer fed dead wood to the fire to make it hot enough for cooking.

The remains of the butchered deer carcasses had been dumped here, well away from their camp.

The Yilanè butchered all the living creatures indiscriminately: men, women, children, animals.

Some of our meat animals have been stolen, others butchered during the hours of darkness, their flesh carried away before morning.

Stallan was there first, pointing out with disgust the butchered corpses on the blood-stained grass.

One of the handlers carved a lump of flesh from the flank of a butchered beast and threw it towards the bird.

Reminded of where I daily endured the fear that would be the day I was to be butchered and sacrificed.

Have the people there flee before they are tortured and butchered like those we saw in this place, Renwold.

When I went to the walled city of Ebinissia and saw the people butchered by the Imperial Order, I vowed vengeance.

The men of Imperial Order tortured and butchered every man, woman, and child in the city.

Washington Tanner had told his bright-eyed young nephew, Theo, about the ravaged land of Kansas, how houses were razed and families butchered, and all that a man saw as he cantered across the state, from dawn to dusk, were the tall stone chimneys.