ppl. a. [f. BUTCHER v. + -ED1.] Killed by a butcher; killed remorselessly, brutally, or in cold blood.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., V. ii. 123. The wronged Soules Of butcher’d Princes, fight in thy behalfe.
1837. W. Irving, Capt. Bonneville, I. 191. The remains of their butchered leader.
1859. Lang, Wand. India, 70. Ellen … buried her butchered husband.
