slay

Word family

slay /sleɪ/ verb (past tensepst slew /sluː/, past participlepp slain /sleɪn/) [transitiveT] → sleigh

1. KILL literary to kill someone – used especially in newspapers 杀害，残杀，谋杀〔尤用于报纸上〕► see thesaurus at kill

2. American EnglishAmE spoken informalFUNNY to amuse someone a lot 逗得…大笑

—slayer noun [countableC]

Examples from the Corpus

slay• Roll two dice scoring 4 and 6 a further 2 men slain.• Now, detectives are investigating the possibility that a fourth woman may have been slain by the retired Army sergeant.• Coretta King is the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.• Hercules slew Diomedes first and then drove off the mares unopposed.• Tens of thousands were slain, drowned by waves, buried by earthquakes, struck by magical lightning.• A Pump Wagon is dependent on its crew for mobility, so once its crew are all slain it can not move.• That guy really slays me!• You'd slay them you would!

Origin slay

Old English slean “to hit, kill”

Chinese

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