beat to a pulp vs slaughter

beat to a pulp

verb
  • To beat up (a person) more than usually severely. 

  • To defeat severely in various, even non-contact, competitive sports. 

slaughter

verb
  • To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner. 

  • To butcher animals, generally for food. 

  • To massacre people in large numbers. 

noun
  • A rout or decisive defeat. 

  • A mass destruction of non-living things. 

  • The killing of animals, generally for food. 

  • A massacre; the killing of a large number of people. 

  • A group of iguanas. 

How often have the words beat to a pulp and slaughter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )