| 单词 | slaying |
| 释义 | slaying (once / 1873 pages) n WORD FAMILY slaying: slayings+/slay: slayed, slayer, slaying, slays/slayer: slayers USAGE EXAMPLESThe country suffered bombings, slayings and kidnappings during a period of domestic terrorism in the 1970s and early 1980s. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) The department said in a news release that the first slaying occurred late Friday in Capitol Heights. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Most notable is Chicago, where the city’s 700-plus slayings are more than double the combined total in the Washington region. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) n unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being Syn|Exp|Hypo|Hyper execution, murder Alamo a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico Battle of the Little Bighorna battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command assassination murder of a public figure by surprise attack bloodshed, gorethe shedding of blood resulting in murder contract killinga murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer parricidethe murder of your own father or mother mariticidethe murder of a husband by his wife fratricidethe murder of your sibling uxoricidethe murder of a wife by her husband filicidethe murder of your own son or daughter elimination, liquidationthe murder of a competitor butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughterthe savage and excessive killing of many people lynchingputting a person to death by mob action without due process of law regicidethe act of killing a king dry-gulchingthe act of killing from ambush hita murder carried out by an underworld syndicate infanticidemurdering an infant shoot-downmurder by shooting someone down in cold blood tyrannicidekilling a tyrant thuggeemurder and robbery by thugs matricidethe murder of your mother patricidethe murder of your father battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshedindiscriminate slaughter homicide the killing of a human being by another human being |
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