Synonyms of slew

slew 1 of 2

noun

ˈslü 

as in loads

a considerable amount

we still have a slew of work to do on this project

Synonyms & Similar Words

• loads
• ton
• dozen
• plenty
• bunch
• lot
• deal
• pile
• raft
• chunk
• wealth
• hundred
• myriad
• quantity
• stack
• abundance
• bundle
• boatload
• all kinds (of)
• truckload
• spate
• heap
• sheaf
• reams
• gobs
• good deal
• quite a bit
• fistful
• mountain
• multiplicity
• scads
• profusion
• carload
• pack
• thousands
• bucket
• volume
• shipload
• yard
• basketful
• bushel
• plenitude
• mass
• oodles
• peck
• pot
• much
• store
• barrel
• sight
• mess
• passel
• wad
• lashings
• plateful
• plentitude
• potful
• multitude
• plethora
• flood
• score
• plague
• rash
• bevy
• surplus
• surfeit
• host
• overabundance
• excess
• deluge
• epidemic
• sea
• million
• horde
• swarm
• bonanza
• superabundance
• flock
• crowd
• legion
• throng
• zillion
• oversupply
• army
• drove
• embarrassment
• superfluity
• overflow
• overkill
• redundancy
• overage
• crush
• herd
• press
• cram
• gazillion
• mob
• overmuch
• jillion
• kazillion
• trillion

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• handful
• bit
• suspicion
• spot
• sprinkling
• taste
• strain
• hint
• touch
• shadow
• grain
• trace
• ounce
• ray
• ace
• shade
• streak
• sprinkle
• mouthful
• fragment
• particle
• pittance
• peanuts
• molecule
• glimmer
• pinch
• dram
• tad
• mite
• speck
• scrap
• smattering
• scruple
• shred
• nip
• atom
• whit
• lick
• modicum
• mote
• jot
• dab
• section
• iota
• dot
• little
• drop
• granule
• portion
• tittle
• scintilla
• shot
• crumb
• dash
• piece
• smidgen
• morsel
• absence
• driblet
• lack
• shortage
• paucity
• fleck
• flyspeck
• dearth
• scarcity
• famine
• smatter
• nubbin
• poverty
• deficiency
• want
• deficit
• insufficiency
• inadequacy
• scantiness
• scarceness
• undersupply
• meagerness
• scantness
• skimpiness

slew

2 of 2

verb

past tense of slay

1

as in killed

to deprive of life

millions have been slain worldwide by this dreadful disease

Synonyms & Similar Words

• killed
• destroyed
• took
• claimed
• dispatched
• carried off
• murdered
• felled
• slaughtered
• did for
• did in
• did away with
• made away with
• croaked
• cut down
• assassinated
• massacred
• wasted
• butchered
• smote
• got
• put away
• whacked
• finished
• decimated
• executed
• rubbed out
• snuffed
• neutralized
• offed
• knocked off
• killed off
• bumped off
• mowed
• blotted out
• annihilated
• took out
• martyred
• iced
• scragged
• terminated
• put down
• euthanized
• suicided

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• animated
• raised
• revived
• resurrected
• restored
• nurtured
• resuscitated

2

as in murdered

to put to death deliberately

vowed to slay without mercy whoever was responsible for murdering his family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• murdered
• assassinated
• executed
• killed
• got
• dispatched
• slaughtered
• whacked
• put away
• offed
• neutralized
• snuffed
• knocked off
• destroyed
• terminated
• liquidated
• did in
• took out
• bumped off
• did away with
• rubbed out
• croaked
• iced
• claimed
• shot down
• cut down
• smote
• shot
• carried off
• massacred
• felled
• butchered
• eliminated
• wiped out
• blotted out
• mowed (down)
• eradicated
• zapped
• blew away
• annihilated
• exterminated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• raised
• animated
• revived
• restored
• resurrected
• resuscitated

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of slew

Noun

For this weekend’s festival, Hello82 promises a slew of activities taking place at its two-stage grounds. — Nicole Fell, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2026

In 2024, the main nationwide entrance examination for medical schools was engulfed in controversy over a slew of irregularities, including the advance leak of the exam’s questions. — Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2026

Verb

Director Kyle Balda serves up a cup of comfort and joy with his pleasant, cozy British mystery, a creature feature charmer where cute talking animatronic sheep hoof it about a quaint little village to figure out who slew their genial shepherd George (Hugh Jackman). — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 May 2026

If there is any unevenness in wear the bomb will slew to one side and curve away from a straight path. — David Hambling, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025

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