单词	slay
释义	slayslay /sleɪ/ verb (past tense slew /sluː/, past participle slain /sleɪn/) [transitive] Word Origin WORD ORIGINslay Origin: Old English slean ‘to hit, kill’ Verb Table VERB TABLE slay Simple Form Present I, you, we, they slay he, she, it slays Past I, you, he, she, it, we, they slew Present perfect I, you, we, they have slain he, she, it has slain Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had slain Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will slay Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have slain Continuous Form Present I am slaying he, she, it is slaying you, we, they are slaying Past I, he, she, it was slaying you, we, they were slaying Present perfect I, you, we, they have been slaying he, she, it has been slaying Past perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they had been slaying Future I, you, he, she, it, we, they will be slaying Future perfect I, you, he, she, it, we, they will have been slaying Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Coretta King is the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. That guy really slays me! EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A Pump Wagon is dependent on its crew for mobility, so once its crew are all slain it can not move. Hercules slew Diomedes first and then drove off the mares unopposed. Now, detectives are investigating the possibility that a fourth woman may have been slain by the retired Army sergeant. Roll two dice scoring 4 and 6 a further 2 men slain. Tens of thousands were slain, drowned by waves, buried by earthquakes, struck by magical lightning. You'd slay them you would! Thesaurus THESAURUS► kill to make someone die: · The driver and his passenger were killed in the crash.· He was killed by rival gang members. ► murder to deliberately kill someone – used when talking about this as a crime: · He was convicted of murdering his wife. ► commit manslaughter to kill someone without intending to – used when talking about this as a crime: · The court ruled that the guard had committed manslaughter. ► assassinate to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician: · He was part of a plot to assassinate Hitler. ► slay to kill someone or something in a violent way – used in newspaper reports and also in old stories: · Two teenagers were slain in the shootings.· St. George slew the dragon.· The king was slain at the battle of Hastings. ► execute formal (also put somebody to death) to kill someone as a punishment for a crime: · McVeigh, who killed 168 people in a bombing attack, was executed by lethal injection. ► eliminate to kill someone in order to prevent them from causing trouble: · a ruthless dictator who eliminated all his rivals ► take somebody out informal to kill someone in order to get rid of them, especially an enemy or someone who is causing trouble for you: · US forces used air strikes to take out the enemy positions.· One of the other drug dealers may have decided to take him out. ► bump somebody off humorous informal to kill someone: · He was so irritating I felt like bumping him off myself. ► do away with somebody informal to kill someone: · The settlers in Jamestown had been done away with, but no one knew how. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► man · It looked as if the Elves would be slain to a man.· The most serious allegation against him involved the November 1998 slaying of three men at an automobile body shop in Montebello.· Homer says that he felt awe to slay a man who had been taught his divine art by the gods. 1 literary to kill someone – used especially in newspapers ► see thesaurus at kill2American English spoken informal to amuse someone a lot—slayer noun [countable]
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