Crossword clues for slaying
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.
Wiktionary
n. Killing, especially murder of a human. vb. (present participle of slay English)
WordNet
Usage examples of "slaying".
They were renowned not only for their brutal killings, but also for celebrating their slayings by plunging themselves into drug-induced stupors.
That, and the lurid stories that even our respectable papers were printing, because those things were indeed going on- bootlegging, wide-open gambling houses, houses of ill repute, riots in which innocent bystanders were slain, gangland slayings, all of it.
Little Sammy Chianti, seventh grade dropout and neighborhood terrorist, became known as Sam the Bomber and participated in another fifty-six slayings before attaining legal age.
And for the Romans, they had had no mercy, and now looked for none: and they remembered their dealings with the Goths, and saw before them, as it were, once more, yea, as in a picture, their slayings and quellings, and lashings, and cold mockings which they had dealt out to the conquered foemen without mercy, and now they longed sore for the quiet of the dark, when their hard lives should be over, and all these deeds forgotten, and they and their bitter foes should be at rest for ever.
The recent slayings were of offenders of anywhere between six months and two years ago.
Episodes of mob violence proliferated in the major cities of the world, and mass slayings by armed lunatics occurred almost daily.
Attracted by the rumors of chaos and tragedy from the bloody-minded ambitions and cruel slayings here in Choin.
It lay there across his hands, and waited to be presented with slayings as a banqueter waits eagerly for the first course.
Add on the mysterious disappearance of Los Angeles District Attorney Robert Gallaudet and the November 19 Herrick family slayings, still unsolved, and you have what Governor Goodwin J.
It is as though in my thoughts I am Gyld, flying high, high in the night sky, huge, powerful, irresistible, with pride in all the memories of battles, of slayings, of stealings, of songs where my name is a beat of awe and fear.
Over the station speakers in the hall the newscaster was headlining the Los Angeles razorblade slayings, commenting on the discovery that morning of an eleventh young woman, nude and with throat sliced open, in the bushes near the Silverlake off-ramp of the Hollywood Freeway.