verb

1. To slaughter (animals) and prepare (meat) for market.

2. To kill brutally.

3. To ruin (something), often to the point of defamation.

   “The band at that bar really butchered "Hotel California".”

Synonyms: carnager, flesher, kill, slaughter, massacre, slay, mayhemist, murder

noun

1. The act by which someone or something is butchered; a slaughter or killing.