slayer

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.

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

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slayer n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal killer 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] N → asesino/a m/f

slayer [ˈsleɪə^r] n (= killer) → tueur/euse m/f

slayer

n (liter) → Mörder(in) m(f), → Töter(in) m(f) (old liter)