slay
Significat (Anglès)
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- To kill; to murder.
- To eradicate or stamp out.
- (informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
- (slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
- To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
- (slang) To have sex with.
Sinònims
shoot dead
quiten
set aright
turn off
shed blood
take a life
end one’s life
take life
destroy completely
going part
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/sleɪ/
Etimologia (Anglès)
In summary
From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.
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