slaying

slaying

noun

Definition of SLAYING

the intentional and unlawful taking of another person's life <a man wanted for the slaying of seven people during an armed robbery>

Synonyms blood, foul play, murder, rubout, slaying

Related Words chance-medley, killing, manslaughter; bloodshed, butchery, carnage, decimation, destruction, massacre, slaughter; assassination, execution, hit; euthanasia, mercy killing; filicide, fratricide, matricide, parricide, patricide, regicide, uxoricide