butchering Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the business of a butcher
    butchery.
  2. verb kill (animals) usually for food consumption
    slaughter; butcher.
    • They slaughtered their only goat to survive the winter

WordNet

Butch"er*ing noun
Definitions
  1. The business of a butcher.
  2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly.
    That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.

Webster 1913