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slay

(slā)

tr.v. slew (slo͞o) or slayed or slain (slān) or slayed, slay·ing, slays

1. To kill violently.

2. Slang To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.

[Middle English slen, slayen, from Old English slēan.]

slay′er n.

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slaying

(ˈsleɪɪŋ)

the act of killinga murder

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Noun

slaying - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being

murder, execution

homicide - the killing of a human being by another human being

assassination - murder of a public figure by surprise attack

bloodshed, gore - the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the bloodshed of his kinsmen"

contract killing - a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer

parricide - the murder of your own father or mother

mariticide - the murder of a husband by his wife

fratricide - the murder of your sibling

uxoricide - the murder of a wife by her husband

filicide - the murder of your own son or daughter

liquidation, elimination - the murder of a competitor

carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, butchery - the savage and excessive killing of many people

lynching - putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

regicide - the act of killing a king

dry-gulching - the act of killing from ambush

hit - a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate; "it has all the earmarks of a Mafia hit"

infanticide - murdering an infant

shoot-down - murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

tyrannicide - killing a tyrant

thuggee - murder and robbery by thugs

slaying

noun killing, murder, massacre, assassination, manslaughter, homicide, bloodshed, carnage, butchery a trail of motiveless slayings

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omicidio uccisione

slaying

[ˈsleɪɪŋ] n

(= killing) → mort f (violente)

(mainly US) (= murder) → meurtre m

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slaying

n (esp US: = murder) → Mord m; an increasing number of slayings → eine Zunahme von Mordfällen

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Your slaying, ye judges, shall be pity, and not revenge; and in that ye slay, see to it that ye yourselves justify life!

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But the "Odyssey" itself left much untold: what, for example, happened in Ithaca after the slaying of the suitors, and what was the ultimate fate of Odysseus?

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What glory wilt thou win By slaying twice the slain?

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Asteropaeus stood up out of the water to face him with a spear in either hand, and Xanthus filled him with courage, being angry for the death of the youths whom Achilles was slaying ruthlessly within his waters.

My fair waters are now filled with corpses, nor can I find any channel by which I may pour myself into the sea for I am choked with dead, and yet you go on mercilessly slaying. I am in despair, therefore, O captain of your host, trouble me no further."

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