slay

Meaning

Verb

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

Noun

Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.

Intj

Used to express approval or amazement.

Noun

Alternative form of sley

Synonyms

kill

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murder

slaughter

destroy

assassinate

liquidate

massacre

butcher

dispatch

execute

polish off

do in

cut down

remove

hit

off

bump off

beat

shoot dead

put to death

eliminate

annihilate

electrocute

waste

enfeeble

excavate

exhaust

extinguish

finish

finish off

go through

grub

hack

humiliate

knock off

mortify

overcome

overthrow

pass through

persecute

pull down

put down

quiet

quiten

redress

set aright

sever

shoot

shut off

slew

Translations

töten

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uccidere

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doden

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tuer

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matar

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matar

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ammazzare

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ermorden

ombrengen

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asesinar

doodmaken

abattre

vermoorden

assassinar

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erschlagen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/sleɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: sleen

Inherited from Old English: slēan

Cognate with Dutch: slaan

Cognate with Low German: slaan

Cognate with German: schlagen

Cognate with Danish: -

Cognate with Norwegian: -

Cognate with Swedish: slå

Cognate with Icelandic: slá

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.