Evisceration

The evisceration of the animal was accomplished with a single blow of the knife.

The critic delivered another evisceration of the latest movie.

If you were a Belgian, it was pretty and what you would have expected from your boys. If you were a Scot it was painful, an evisceration of McLeish's notion that his team were good enough to go "toe-to-toe" with the third best team in the world. Delusional.