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slayer

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slay  (sl)
tr.v. slew (sl), slain (sln), slay·ing, slays
1. To kill violently.
2. past tense and past participle often slayed Slang To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.

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

slayer n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animalslayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
executioner, public executioner - an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant
eradicator, exterminator, terminator - someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)
choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler, strangler - someone who kills by strangling
liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
poisoner - someone who kills with poison
regicide - someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king
felo-de-se, suicide - a person who kills himself intentionally
Translations
slayer [ˈsleɪəʳ] Nasesino/a m/f
slayer [ˈsleɪər] n (= killer) → tueur/euse m/f
slayer
n (liter)Mörder(in) m(f), → Töter(in) m(f) (old liter)


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For courage is the best slayer,--courage which ATTACKETH: for in every attack there is sound of triumph.
And he charged Hermes the guide, the Slayer of Argus, to put in her a shameless mind and a deceitful nature.
Again and again this phrase beat monotonously upon his brain--a dull, throbbing pain, yet mechanically his feet followed the trail of her slayer while, subconsciously, his every sense was upon the alert for the ever-present perils of the jungle.
 
 
 
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