slayer

slay

S0468100 (slā)tr.v. slew (slo͞o) or slayed or slain (slān) or slayed, slay·ing, slays 1. To kill violently.2. Slang To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.

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[Middle English slen, slayen, from Old English slēan.]

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slay′er n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animalkillerindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"executioner, public executioner - an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warranteradicator, exterminator, terminator - someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler, strangler - someone who kills by stranglingliquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)poisoner - someone who kills with poisonregicide - someone who commits regicide; the killer of a kingfelo-de-se, suicide - a person who kills himself intentionally

slayer

nounOne who murders another:butcher, cutthroat, homicide, killer, manslayer, massacrer, murderer, murderess, slaughterer, triggerman.

Translations

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