butcher
Definitions
A person whose trade is cutting up and selling meat.
To slaughter or dress animals for food.
To botch or ruin something through gross incompetence.
Examples
The local butcher prepared a fresh cut of beef for the Sunday roast.
He decided to butcher the deer himself after returning from the hunting trip.
The critic claimed that the director managed to butcher the classic novel in his latest film adaptation.
Synonyms
slaughterer meatman killer murderer destroyer mutilator bungler