n. 25B6; noun
a butcher's shop : MEAT SELLER, meat trader; slaughterer; Scottish flesher.
a Nazi butcher : MURDERER, slaughterer, killer, assassin; N. Amer. terminator; poetic/literary slayer; dated cut-throat, homicide.
25B6; verb
the goat was butchered : SLAUGHTER, cut up, carve up, joint.
they butchered 150 people : MASSACRE, murder, slaughter, kill, destroy, exterminate, assassinate; N. Amer. terminate; informal dispose of; poetic/literary slay.
the studio butchered the film : SPOIL, ruin, mutilate, mangle, mess up, wreck; informal make a hash of, screw up.