Crossword clues for slay
slay
- Amuse to the max
- "You ___ me!" ("That's hysterical!")
- What Buffy would do to a vampire
- What Buffy does
- Put to the sword
- Overwhelm with one-liners
- Overwhelm with amusement
- More than amuse
- Make one roll in the aisles
- Kill, as the Minotaur
- Kill, as a vampire or dragon
- Kill or put in stitches
- Greatly amuse
- Finish off, as a dragon
- Do in, as the Jabberwock
- Defeat, as a dragon
- Cause to crack up
- Amuse greatly: Colloq
- Wow, comedywise
- Wow, as in a drag show
- Wow, as a stand-up
- Wow with humor
- Wipe out, as a dragon
- Vanquish a vampire
- Take out, as a vampire
- Succeed at the comedy club
- Really entertain, at a comedy showcase
- Really amuse
- Put a stake in, maybe
- Perform excellently
- Perform amazingly, in slang
- Overwhelm, as with laughter
- Overwhelm with comedy?
- Much more than tickle
- More than just amuse
- Make laugh really hard
- Make laugh a lot
- Look extremely stylish, slangily
- Leave laughing
- Leave 'em laughing
- Knock off, or knock the socks off
- Knock dead, as a crowd
- Knock dead at the comedy club
- Knock dead at a comedy club
- Kill, like a vampire or dragon
- Kill, like a monster
- Kill, like a dragon
- Kill, as onstage
- Kill the dragon
- Kill or greatly amuse
- Kill a dragon
- Impress to the nth degree
- Frequent verb in Beyonce's "Formation"
- Finish off, as a vampire or dragon
- Evoke gaiety with gags at a gig
- Elicit guffaws from
- Draw guffaws from
- Dispatch, in a way
- Dispatch, as dragons
- Dispatch like a dragon
- Delight (an audience)
- Defeat, as a vampire
- Cause to howl
- Cause to convulse with laughter
- Be a hit at the comedy club
- Amusingly overwhelm
- Amuse overwhelmingly
- Amuse highly
- Affect powerfully: Slang
- Assassinate
- Kill, as a dragon
- Dispatch, as a dragon
- Do in, as a dragon
- Knock off, as a dragon
- Off, so to speak
- Murder, as a beast
- Leave rolling in the aisles
- Send rolling in the aisles
- Wow 'em at the comedy club
- Leave helpless with laughter
- Leave laughing in the aisles
- Have rolling in the aisles
- Bump off a dragon
- Cut down
- More than tickle
- Make heads roll?
- Delight, slangily
- Knock 'em dead?
- Overwhelm with humor
- Fell, as a dragon
- Overwhelm, at a comedy club
- Smite
- Crack up
- Put in stitches
- Leave in stitches
- Cause to roll in the aisles
- Do in, so to speak
- What good comics do
- Whack
- Roll 'em in the aisles
- Execute
- Lay low
- Homophone for sleigh
- Highly amuse: Colloq.
- Massacre
- Liquidate a dragon
- Wow an audience
- Serb or Sorb
- Destroy
- Amuse immensely
- Affect overpoweringly
- Overwhelm, in slanguage
- Violently kill
- Cunning head of abbey concealed butcher
- Knowing about a murder
- Kill intentionally
- Destroy Scottish island — no small island
- Terminate in small place
- Rub out
- Do away with, as a vampire
- Knock the socks off of
- Make laugh in a big way
- Emulate Buffy
- Do in a dragon
- Vanquish, as a dragon
- Kill or delight
- Dispatch a dragon
- Overwhelm with laughter
- Kill with laughter
- Do in, as a vampire
- Delight, as a comedy club crowd
- Assassin's order
- Kill with jokes
- Kill it or just kill
- Have 'em rolling in the aisles
- Finish off, as a fire-breather
- Delight at the comedy club
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Slay \Slay\, v. t. [imp. Slew; p. p. Slain; p. pr. & vb. n. Slaying.] [OE. slan, sl?n, sleen, slee, AS. sle['a]n to strike, beat, slay; akin to OFries. sl[=a], D. slaan, OS. & OHG. slahan, G. schlagen, Icel. sl[=a], Dan. slaae, Sw. sl?, Goth. slahan; perhaps akin to L. lacerare to tear to pieces, Gr. ????, E. lacerate. Cf. Slaughter, Sledge a hammer, Sley.] To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
With this sword then will I slay you both.
--Chaucer.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
--Amos ix.
1.
I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk.
--Shak.
Syn: To kill; murder; slaughter; butcher.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English slean "to smite, strike, beat," also "to kill with a weapon, slaughter" (class VI strong verb; past tense sloh, slog, past participle slagen), from Proto-Germanic *slahan, from root *slog- "to hit" (cognates: Old Norse and Old Frisian sla, Danish slaa, Middle Dutch slaen, Dutch slaan, Old High German slahan, German schlagen, Gothic slahan "to strike"). The Germanic words are from PIE root *slak- "to strike" (cognates: Middle Irish past participle slactha "struck," slacc "sword").\n
\nModern German cognate schlagen maintains the original sense of "to strike." Meaning "overwhelm with delight" (mid-14c.) preserves one of the wide range of meanings the word once had, including, in Old English, "stamp (coins); forge (weapons); throw, cast; pitch (a tent), to sting (of a snake); to dash, rush, come quickly; play (the harp); gain by conquest."
"instrument on a weaver's loom to beat up the weft," Old English slæ, slea, slahae, from root meaning "strike" (see slay (v.)), so called from "striking" the web together. Hence the surname Slaymaker "maker of slays."
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context now literary English) To kill, murder. 2 (context literary English) To eradicate or stamp out. 3 (context by extension colloquial English) To defeat, overcome. 4 (context slang English) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Slay may refer to:
Usage examples of "slay".
First, to the will of those who slew Him: and in this respect He was not a victim: for the slayers of Christ are not accounted as offering a sacrifice to God, but as guilty of a great crime: a similitude of which was borne by the wicked sacrifices of the Gentiles, in which they offered up men to idols.
After the affray Bushart would certainly have been slain had he remained, so he induced the captain of the HUNTER to give him a passage to the first land reached.
As if the teachings of Anarchism in its extremest form could equal the force of those slain women and infants, who had pilgrimed to the King for aid.
He anticipated the hour of the attack, outstripped his tardy followers, and was pierced with a mortal wound, after he had slain with his own hand twelve of his boldest antagonists.
Syracuse was delivered by the Greeks, the apostate was slain before her walls, and his African friends were reduced to the necessity of feeding on the flesh of their own horses.
Typhon, his brother, slew him when the sun was in the sign of the Scorpion, that is to say, at the Autumnal Equinox.
Archmaester Benedict insisted that there had never been a war of five kings, since Renly Baratheon had been slain before Balon Greyjoy had crowned himself.
When they saw us, they pointed at Kamlot, and I heard them telling some of the sailors that he was the one who had slain the basto with a single sword thrust, a feat which appeared to force their admiration, as well it might have.
He mocked at my cowardice, and began a-reasoning on the matter with such powerful eloquence that, before we parted, I felt fully convinced that it was my bounden duty to slay Mr.
Once he was armed again Soldier was tempted to put on the brigandine for protection and begin slaying the owners of the fort.
His hungry brethren cannot, without a sense of their own injustice, extort from the hunter the game of the forest overtaken or slain by his personal strength and dexterity.
But immediately the young Republic emerged from the stresses of adolescence, a missionary army took to the field again, and before long the Asbury revival was paling that of Whitefield, Wesley and Jonathan Edwards, not only in its hortatory violence but also in the length of its lists of slain.
In truth, his mind had been fully occupied with matters far more significant than the miserable slaying of some fornicating malefactor in a Troidmallos alley.
After the death of Neg the Malefic, the necromancer whom Conan had slain, the young Cimmerian and Elashi had agreed to travel together until their paths parted.
But before the Mexicans murdered the mother of Geronimo and his wife and children, and the soldiers of the white-yes slew the Apaches they had invited to have food with them, and before Mangas Colorado was treacherously murdered, did the Apaches have reason to hate the Mexicans and the white-eyes?