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单词 slew
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slewverb

uk​/sluː/us​/sluː/

past simple of slay

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Murder & attempted murder

  • assassinate
  • assassination
  • attempt
  • blow sb away
  • blow sb's brains out idiom
  • bump
  • dispatch
  • lynch
  • lynch law
  • manslaughter
  • martyr
  • martyred
  • necklace
  • poison
  • shoot sb down
  • slain
  • slay
  • slaying
  • snuff sb out
  • throttle

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slewverb [ I or T, + adv/prep ]

uk​/sluː/us​/sluː/

to turn or be turned round suddenly and awkwardly:

The car hit a patch of ice and slewed around violently.
He slewed the van to the left to avoid the dog.

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Changing direction

  • about-turn
  • bear
  • branch off
  • branch off sth
  • decoy
  • deflect
  • deflection
  • diversion
  • divert
  • glance
  • glance off (sth)
  • head
  • head sb/sth off
  • oscillate
  • peaked
  • sheer
  • turn
  • U-turn
  • veer
  • yo-yo

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slewnoun [ C usually singular ]

uk​/sluː/us​/sluː/US informal

a large amount or number:

Savino has been charged with three murders as well as a whole slew of other crimes.

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Masses and large amounts of things

  • accumulation
  • an embarrassment of riches idiom
  • any number of things idiom
  • backlog
  • battery
  • boatload
  • bolus
  • clot
  • deluge
  • fund
  • lashing
  • outpouring
  • panoply
  • plethora
  • predominance
  • preponderance
  • sheet
  • shower
  • thousand
  • tidal wave

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slew

us​/slu/

slew (KILL)

past simple of slay

slewnoun [ C usually sing ]

us​/slu/infml

slew noun [ C usually sing ] (LARGE AMOUNT)

a large amount or number:

There’s a whole slew of new movies that I want to see.
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