slay

Oznaczający (Angielski)

Verb

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.

Noun

Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.

Noun

Alternative form of sley

Synonimy

kill

🔪🩸👤

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

soothe

still

straighten

strike

strike down

surmount

tackle

take down

tranquilize

turn off

use up

vanquish

weaken

win over

shed blood

do to death

take a life

end one’s life

take life

destroy completely

sley

abase

going part

adjust

amend

appease

assuage

attack

👊

batten

behead

breakdown

calm

chop

correct

cover

cut off

defeat

demolish

depress

despatch

dig up

discourage

dishearten

down

drop

enervate

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/sleɪ/

Etymologia (Angielski)

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.