slaying

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.

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

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slay′er n.

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slaying

(ˈsleɪɪŋ)

n

the act of killinga murder

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Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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

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slaying

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

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Translations

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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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