Слово "slaughter". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

And in spite of the endless slaughters reported in the Press and on the telescreens, the desperate battles of earlier wars, in which hundreds of thousands or even millions of men were often killed in a few weeks, have never been repeated.

On the contrary, war hysteria is continuous and universal in all countries, and such acts as raping, looting, the slaughter of children, the reduction of whole populations to slavery, and reprisals against prisoners which extend even to boiling and burying alive, are looked upon as normal, and, when they are committed by one's own side and not by the enemy, meritorious.

But he was dead enough, for all that, being both shot and drowned, and was food for fish in the very place where he had designed my slaughter.

But he was dead enough, for all that, being both shot and drowned, and was food for fish in the very place where he had designed my slaughter.

Once down by the slaughter-house.

'But wait,' said Woland, 'why the devil would anyone slaughter him?

He said he not only felt he wanted to kill the man who caused the board to be put up, but that he should like to slaughter the whole of his family and all his friends and relations, and then burn down his house.

...than the manner in which they were slaughtered.

They too were slaughtered.

“I never thought I could kill anyone,” Tracy told Gunther, “but I could happily slaughter Jeff Stevens.”

We are born, we are given just so much food as will keep the breath in our bodies, and those of us who are capable of it are forced to work to the last atom of our strength; and the very instant that our usefulness has come to an end we are slaughtered with hideous cruelty.