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slay
Synonyms and Antonyms of slay
- millions have been slain worldwide by this dreadful disease
bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]
annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite
assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate
euthanize (also euthanatize), put down
do away with, do for [chiefly British], make away with
- vowed to slay without mercy whoever was responsible for murdering his family
Synonym Discussion of slay
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- killed in an accident
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- frost killed the plants
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- slew thousands of the Philistines
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- convicted of murdering a rival
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- terrorists assassinated the Senator
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- dispatched the sentry with one bullet
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- executed by lethal gas
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