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单词 slayings
释义

slaying

noun

slay·​ing ˈslā-iŋ How to pronounce slaying (audio)
plural slayings
: the act of killing a person : killing, murder
used chiefly in journalistic writing
a gangland slayingSunday's slayings bring to 14 the number of killings this year in what police call gang-related attacks. Peter SteinHe is accused of ordering the 1989 slayings and robberies of three drug dealers … Joseph P. Fried

Synonyms

  • blood
  • foul play
  • homicide
  • murder
  • rubout
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Word History

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

slayings

noun

plural of slaying
as in murders
the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life a man wanted for the slaying of seven people during an armed robbery

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • murders
  • homicides
  • killings
  • massacres
  • rubouts
  • assassinations
  • foul play
  • manslaughters
  • executions
  • slaughters
  • blood
  • carnages
  • butcheries
  • bloodsheds
  • decimations
  • destructions
  • parricides
  • regicides
  • mercy killings
  • euthanasias
  • hits
  • chance-medleys
  • fratricides
  • matricides
  • filicides
  • patricides
  • uxoricides
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