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slay
Overview of verb slay
The verb slay has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove -- (kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered")
Grep of noun slay
islay
slayer
slaying
Antonyms of verb slay
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> kill
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> burke
=> execute
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> kill
'Cause To' of verb slay
Derived Forms of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
RELATED TO>(noun) slayer#1
=> killer, slayer
RELATED TO>(noun) slaying#1
=> murder, slaying, execution
Domain of verb slay
Domain Terms of verb slay
Familiarity of verb slay
slay used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
EX: Sam cannot slay Sue
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> kill
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Grep of verb slay
mislay
slay
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