butterflied
- 1Simple past and past participle of butterfly.
She butterflied the leg of lamb and laid it flat across the grill.
The pork chops were butterflied by the butcher before they reached the counter.
Note
A regular form that changes the y of butterfly to i before -ed. Every transitive use of the verb passes through it: the cook's split-and-flatten cut, tape strips laid across a gaping wound, and the alternate historian's events that never happen because of the butterfly effect. As a participle it also sits before nouns, as in butterflied shrimp or a butterflied chop.
butterflied is a form of butterfly
butterfly, verb: To cut food almost entirely in half and spread the two halves apart, forming a shape like a butterfly's open wings. Full entry
- Forms
- butterflybutterflies he/she/itbutterflying -ing formbutterflied past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- butterfly → butterflied: change y to i, add -ed
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