slay

Signification (Anglais)

1. To kill; to murder.
2. To eradicate or stamp out.
3. (informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
4. (slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
5. To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
6. (slang) To have sex with.

tuer

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se débarasser de

faire l’école buissonnière

shoot dead

quiten

set aright

turn off

shed blood

take a life

end one’s life

take life

destroy completely

going part

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/sleɪ/

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.