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slaughterhouse

noun as in killing place

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The pair later found employment in slaughterhouses in Nebraska, where she suffered a severe leg injury from a cutting blade.

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Sectarian violence has turned a Syrian city into a slaughterhouse, and survivors recount shelling, executions and burials in a mass grave.

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The mortuary was full of bodies transferred from Saydnaya prison, widely known here as a human slaughterhouse.

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On Sunday, his body was found in the notorious "slaughterhouse", Seydnaya prison in Damascus.

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Two bribes and two fruitless visits later, she was told he was in Sednaya, described by rights groups as “a human slaughterhouse.”

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