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1 (old-fashioned or literary) to kill sb/sth in a war or a fight:
St George slew the dragon.
2 (especially AmE) (used especially in newspapers) to murder sb:
Two passengers were slain by the hijackers.
3 (old-fashioned informal, especially AmE) to have a strong effect on sb:
Those old movies still slay me!
slaying noun (especially AmE):
the drug-related slayings of five people
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for slay is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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