slaying (root: slay)

POS

Verb (usu participle)

HYPHEN

slay=ing

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun slaying has 1 sense

slaying(n = noun.act) execution, murder - unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being; Array

is a kind of homicide

has particulars: assassination, bloodshed, gore, contract killing, parricide, mariticide, fratricide, uxoricide, filicide, elimination, liquidation, butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter, lynching, regicide, dry-gulching, hit, infanticide, shoot-down, tyrannicide, thuggee

Derived form verb slay₁

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THESAURUS

slaying

bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, euthanasia, execution, extermination, flow of blood, gore, immolation, kill, killing, lapidation, martyrdom, martyrization, mercy killing, poisoning, ritual killing, ritual murder, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, stoning, taking of life

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