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slaying
Overview of noun slaying
The noun slaying has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. murder, slaying, execution -- (unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being)
Overview of verb slay
The verb slay has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove -- (kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss ordered his enemies murdered")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slaying
1 sense of slaying
Sense 1
murder, slaying, execution
=> homicide
=> killing, kill, putting to death
=> termination, ending, conclusion
=> change of state
=> change
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun slaying
1 sense of slaying
Sense 1
murder, slaying, execution
=> assassination
=> bloodshed, gore
=> contract killing
=> parricide
=> mariticide
=> fratricide
=> uxoricide
=> filicide
=> elimination, liquidation
=> slaughter, massacre, mass murder, carnage, butchery
=> lynching
=> regicide
=> dry-gulching
=> hit
=> infanticide
=> shoot-down
=> tyrannicide
=> thuggee
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun slaying
1 sense of slaying
Sense 1
murder, slaying, execution
=> homicide
Antonyms of noun slaying
Member Holonyms of noun slaying
Substance Holonyms of noun slaying
Part Holonyms of noun slaying
Member Meronyms of noun slaying
Substance Meronyms of noun slaying
Part Meronyms of noun slaying
Meronyms of noun slaying
Holonyms of noun slaying
Attributes of noun slaying
Derived Forms of noun slaying
1 sense of slaying
Sense 1
murder, slaying, execution
RELATED TO>(verb) slay#1
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
Domain of noun slaying
Domain Terms of noun slaying
Familiarity of noun slaying
slaying used as a noun is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun slaying
1 sense of slaying
Sense 1
murder, slaying, execution
> homicide
=> honor killing
=> manslaughter
=> murder, slaying, execution
=> shooting
Meronyms of noun slaying
1 sense of slaying
Holonyms of noun slaying
Grep of noun slaying
slaying
Antonyms of verb slay
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> kill
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> burke
=> execute
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> kill
'Cause To' of verb slay
Derived Forms of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
RELATED TO>(noun) slayer#1
=> killer, slayer
RELATED TO>(noun) slaying#1
=> murder, slaying, execution
Domain of verb slay
Domain Terms of verb slay
Familiarity of verb slay
slay used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
EX: Sam cannot slay Sue
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb slay
1 sense of slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
> kill
=> eliminate, annihilate, extinguish, eradicate, wipe out, decimate, carry off
=> decimate
=> drown
=> massacre, slaughter, mow down
=> erase, wipe out
=> butcher, slaughter
=> poison
=> stone, lapidate
=> poison
=> commit suicide
=> dispatch
=> zap, vaporize
=> sacrifice
=> take off
=> tomahawk
=> destroy
=> saber, sabre
=> overlie, overlay
=> brain
=> put away, put to sleep
=> neutralize, neutralise, liquidate, waste, knock off, do in
=> exterminate, kill off
=> smother, asphyxiate, suffocate
=> strangle, strangulate, throttle
=> decapitate, behead, decollate
=> impale, stake
=> dismember
=> martyr
=> shed blood
=> murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> assassinate
=> execute, put to death
=> draw, quarter, draw and quarter
=> lynch
=> shoot, pip
=> electrocute, fry
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb slay
Sense 1
murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, off, polish off, remove
=> kill
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Grep of verb slay
mislay
slay
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