Past tense of butcher
regular verb
The past tense of butcher is butchered. The past participle is also butchered.
Forms of butcher
| Base form (V1) | butcher /ˈbʊt͡ʃə/ |
|---|---|
| Past tense (V2) | butchered |
| Past participle (V3) | butchered |
| Present participle | butchering |
| Third person singular | butchers |
Butchered in a sentence
- The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".
- Victims are 'pig butchered', a form of love scam, very common on dating apps.2022 March 10, James Paul, “US Siblings Duped Over 20000 Investors Of $124 Million In Crypto Scam”, in Mashable India. From the entry pig butcher
- Cy, who asked Forbes to identify him by that pseudonym, had been "pig butchered."2022 September 9, Cyrus Farivar, “How One Man Lost $1 Million To A Crypto 'Super Scam' Called Pig Butchering”, in Forbes. From the entry pig butcher
- He Instagrams the butchered name the barista writes on his coffee cup: Pearson.2021, A. E. Osworth, chapter 20, in We Are Watching Eliza Bright, →ISBN. From the entry Instagram
- Rat salami became a delicacy, and butchered cats were sold as "gutter rabbits.”2019, Kathleen Sears, Socialism 101, page 76. From the entry gutter rabbit
Meaning of butcher
- noun A person who prepares and sells meat (and sometimes also slaughters the animals).
- noun A brutal or indiscriminate killer.
- noun A look.
Questions about the past tense of butcher
- What is the past tense of butcher?
- The past tense of butcher is butchered.
- What is the past participle of butcher?
- The past participle of butcher is butchered.
- Is butcher a regular or irregular verb?
- Butcher is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: butcher (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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