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Another word for slay

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slay

v.

murder, slaughter, butcher, assassinate; see kill 1. See syn. study at kill.

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Another word for slay

verb

To cause the death of:
carry off, cut down, cut off, destroy, dispatch, finish (off), kill¹. (Slang) waste, zap. Idioms: put an end to, put to sleep. See help
To take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully:
destroy, finish (off), kill¹, liquidate, murder. (Informal) put away. (Slang) bump off, do in, knock off, off, rub out, waste, wipe out, zap. See help

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How could any human be so heartless to slay an infant?
But to each of these he gave a knife with injunctions to slay her husband on the marriage night.
He was represented in works of art as carrying off the body of the dead Patroclus or lifting up his hand to slay Helen.
As Asahel would not desist from the pursuit, though warned, Abner was compelled to slay him in self-defence.
Pierre still considered that it would be a useful and worthy action to slay the evildoer, but now he felt that he would not do it.

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