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slew (root: slay)
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun slew has 1 sense
- slew(n = noun.quantity) batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad - (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" is a kind of large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity
has particulars: deluge, flood, inundation, torrent, haymow
Verb slew has 2 senses
- slew(v = verb.motion) curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer - turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right" is one way to turn
- slew(v = verb.motion) skid, slide, slip, slue - move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" is one way to glide
Sample sentences:
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Sample sentences:
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CIDE DICTIONARY
slew, imp.
slew, v. t.
See Slue. [1913 Webster]
slew, n. [See Slough a wet place.].
A wet place; a river inlet.
"The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews."
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
slew, v. & n. (also slue)
--v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by round) turn or swing forcibly or with effort out of the forward or ordinary position.
--n. such a change of position.
--v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by round) turn or swing forcibly or with effort out of the forward or ordinary position.
--n. such a change of position.
slew, past of SLAY(1).
slew, n. esp. US colloq. a large number or quantity.
Etymology
Ir. sluagh
THESAURUS
slew
batch, bunch, clump, cluster, considerable, copse, crop, deal, gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, jillion, knot, lashings, loads, lot, lots, mess, million, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, pot, quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, shock, sight, slews, spate, stack, stacks, stook, thicket, thousand, tidy sum, trillion, tuft, tussock, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp
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