butchery

ot noun

1. A disastrous effort, an atrocious failure. This week’s impossible-to-pronounce word: Catania. Granted, it’s a little trickier than Palermo, but there was no excusing the verbal butchery that ensued. —blog.
2. The cruel, ruthless killings of humans, as at a slaughterhouse.
3. An abattoir, a slaughterhouse.
4. The butchering of meat.