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slayslay /sleɪ/ ●○○ verb (past tense slew /slu/, past participle slain /sleɪn/) [transitive] ETYMOLOGYslayOrigin: Old English slean to hit, kill VERB TABLEslay |
| 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 |
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| 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 |
THESAURUSmake somebody/something die► kill to make a person or living thing die: She was accused of killing her husband. You’ll kill your plants if you water them too much. ► murder to deliberately kill someone: He is accused of murdering four people. ► take somebody’s life to kill someone. Used to emphasize that life is important: All religions teach that it is wrong to take another person’s life. ► assassinate to deliberately kill an important person, especially a politician: President Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963. ► commit murder to murder someone. Used when you are not saying exactly who was murdered: What would make her want to commit murder? ► commit suicide to deliberately cause your own death: After killing the other people, he committed suicide. ► commit manslaughter to kill someone without intending to: He was accused of committing manslaughter after driving too fast and hitting someone in a parking lot. ► execute somebody/put somebody to death to kill someone as a punishment for a crime: Members of the former government were executed for their crimes. ► slaughter/massacre to kill a large number of people in a violent way: Troops came into the village and slaughtered hundreds of people. ► exterminate formal to kill all of a particular group of animals or people: They use poison to exterminate the insects. ► slay to kill someone violently. Used especially in newspapers: The family was slain in their homes. 1to kill someone violently – used especially in newspapers or old stories SYN murder: St. George slew the dragon. slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.► see thesaurus at kill12 (also slayed) spoken to amuse someone a lot: That guy really slays me!—slayer noun [countable] |