Word Meanings - SLAY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy. With this sword then will I slay you both. Chaucer. I will slay the last of them with the sword. Amos ix. 1. I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. Shak.

Additional info about word: SLAY

To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy. With this sword then will I slay you both. Chaucer. I will slay the last of them with the sword. Amos ix. 1. I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. Shak. Syn. -- To kill; murder; slaughter; butcher. (more info) OFries. sla, D. slaan, OS. & OHG. slahan, G. schlagen, Icel. sla, Dan. slaae, Sw. sl, Goth. slahan; perhaps akin to L. lacerare to tear

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SLAY)

• Kill
• Slay
• murder
• assassinate
• destroy
• slaughter
• butcher
• immolate
• massacre
• deaden
• put to death
• despatch
• Smite
• Strike
• beat
• buffet
• chastise
• blast
• afflict
• kill
• slay
• punish
• surprise
• captivate

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SLAY)

• Restore
• expand
• swell

Related words: (words related to SLAY)

• IMMOLATE
  To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle. (more info) orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• PUNISHER
  One who inflicts punishment.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• BUTCHERING
  1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• AFFLICTIVELY
  In an afflictive manner.
• CAPTIVATE
  1. To take prisoner; to capture; to subdue. Their woes whom fortune captivates. Shak. 2. To acquire ascendancy over by reason of some art or attraction; to fascinate; to charm; as, Cleopatra captivated Antony; the orator captivated all hearts.
• CHASTISER
  One who chastises; a punisher; a corrector. Jer. Taylor. The chastiser of the rich. Burke.
• AFFLICTIVE
  Giving pain; causing continued or repeated pain or grief; distressing. "Jove's afflictive hand." Pope. Spreads slow disease, and darts afflictive pain. Prior.
• AFFLICTING
  Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflicting event. -- Af*flict"ing*ly, adv.
• BUFFETER
  One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
• BLASTOSPHERE
  The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note:
• AFFLICTION
  1. The cause of continued pain of body or mind, as sickness, losses, etc.; an instance of grievous distress; a pain or grief. To repay that money will be a biting affliction. Shak. 2. The state of being afflicted; a state of pain, distress, or
• BUTCHERLY
  Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.
• PUNISHABLE
  Deserving of, or liable to, punishment; capable of being punished by law or right; -- said of person or offenses. That time was, when to be a Protestant, to be a Christian, was by law as punishable as to be a traitor. Milton. -- Pun"ish*a*ble*ness,
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• NEMATOBLAST
  A spermatocyte or spermoblast.
• ABLASTEMIC
  Non-germinal.
• CNIDOBLAST
  One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ.