Another word for butchering

I couldn't believe it, so we went inside to investigate and sure enough, a woman was butchering the love song from The Titanic.The woman singing the song kept making mistakes, she was allowed to begin again, four times.

Back then, it took a calf about four years to reach butchering size.

Even if you are butchering the accent or struggling to string a sentence together, the French are generally very responsive to even attempts at their language.