See slay on Wiktionary
{
"derived": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "foreslay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "hack-and-slay"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slayee"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slayer"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slay queen"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slay someone in the Spirit"
}
],
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"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "sleen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English sleen",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "slēan",
"4": "",
"5": "to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact"
},
"expansion": "Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*slahan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *slahan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*slahaną",
"4": "",
"5": "to fight, strike, kill"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”)",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*slak-",
"4": "",
"5": "to hit, strike, throw"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”)",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "slaan",
"3": "",
"4": "to beat, hit, strike"
},
"expansion": "Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nds",
"2": "slaan",
"3": "",
"4": "hit, strike"
},
"expansion": "Low German slaan (“hit, strike”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "schlagen",
"3": "",
"4": "to beat, hit, strike"
},
"expansion": "German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Danish",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "no",
"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "Norwegian",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "slå",
"3": "",
"4": "to knock, beat, strike"
},
"expansion": "Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "slá",
"3": "",
"4": "to strike"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic slá (“to strike”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).\nCognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "slays",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "slaying",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "slew",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slayed",
"tags": [
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slain",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "slayed",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "yslain",
"tags": [
"obsolete",
"participle",
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "",
"2": "",
"3": "slew",
"4": "n",
"past2": "slayed",
"past_ptc2": "slayed",
"past_ptc3": "yslain",
"past_ptc3_qual": "obsolete"
},
"expansion": "slay (third-person singular simple present slays, present participle slaying, simple past slew or slayed, past participle slain or slayed or (obsolete) yslain)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "onslaught"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "slaughter"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
"word": "self-slaughter"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "10 11 3 27 3 4 10 10 21",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Murder",
"orig": "en:Murder",
"parents": [
"Crime",
"Death",
"Violence",
"Criminal law",
"Society",
"Body",
"Life",
"Human behaviour",
"Law",
"All topics",
"Nature",
"Human",
"Justice",
"Fundamental"
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"source": "w+disamb"
}
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"examples": [
{
"text": "The knight slew the dragon.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "Our foes must all be slain.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 26, columns 1–2:",
"text": "In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:",
"text": "The Prince of Morocco:\n[…]By this scimitar,\nThat slew the Sophy and a Persian prince\nThat won three fields of Sultan Solyman,\nI would outstare the sternest eyes that look,\nOutbrave the heart most daring on earth,\nPluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,\nYea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,\nTo win thee, lady. […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 17, verse 31:",
"text": "Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2015 May 4, Randall Munroe, xkcd (webcomic), Degree-Off:",
"text": "\"This is a graph of the death rate from infectious disease in this country. The heroes of my field have slain one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one.\"",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To kill; to murder."
],
"id": "en-slay-en-verb-yXYw66zA",
"links": [
[
"kill",
"kill"
],
[
"murder",
"murder"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "kill"
}
],
"tags": [
"literary",
"transitive"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "qatala",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "قَتَلَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔazhaqa rūḥahu",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "أَزْهَقَ رُوحَهُ"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ḏabaḥa",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "ذَبَحَ"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "spanel",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "սպանել"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zabivácʹ",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "забіва́ць"
},
{
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"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"roman": "zabícʹ",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "забі́ць"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "ubivam",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "убивам"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "matar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "assassinar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "殺"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shā",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "杀"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "謀殺"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "móushā",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "谋杀"
},
{
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "殘殺"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "cánshā",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "残杀"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "dræbe"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "doden"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "vermoorden"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "egy",
"lang": "Egyptian",
"roman": "smꜣ",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "s-mA-A-T30"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "tappaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "surmata"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "tuer"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "assassiner"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "occire"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "töten"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "umbringen"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "erschlagen"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "skotóno",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "σκοτώνω"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "apokteínō",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "ἀποκτείνω"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "raṣáḥ",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "רָצַח"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "öl"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "bana"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "io",
"lang": "Ido",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "ocidar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "tappaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "mukistaa"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "leikata"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "surmata"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "uccidere"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "assassinare"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "korosu",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "殺す"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "occīdō"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "interficiō"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "necō"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "lētō"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "kaut"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "nužudyti"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "tuar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "matar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "assassinar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "oc",
"lang": "Occitan",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "aucir"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "matar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "assassinar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "omorî"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "ucide"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "asasina"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubítʹ",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уби́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ubivátʹ",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "убива́ть"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "sa",
"lang": "Sanskrit",
"roman": "hanti",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "हन्ति"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "matar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "asesinar"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "dräpa"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "slå ihjäl"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "patayin"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "paslangin"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "txb",
"lang": "Tocharian B",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "kau-"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 5 0 11 12 0",
"code": "tpi",
"lang": "Tok Pisin",
"sense": "to kill, murder",
"word": "kilim"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"text": "You must slay these thoughts.",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To eradicate or stamp out."
],
"id": "en-slay-en-verb-OsgAsDgE",
"links": [
[
"eradicate",
"eradicate"
],
[
"stamp out",
"stamp out"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, literary) To eradicate or stamp out."
],
"tags": [
"literary",
"transitive"
]
},
{
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"kind": "other",
"name": "English hyperboles",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1956 December 31, “Giants Slay Bears in Pro Title Battle”, in Lodi News-Sentinel, page 8:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1985 November 19, “Redskins slay Giants; Thiesmann shatters leg”, in The Gadsden Times, pages D1-5:",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1993 April 21, Jack Curry, “Yanks’ Bullpen Falls Short Again”, in The New York Times:",
"text": "The Yankees were actually slayed by two former Yankees because Rich Gossage pitched one scoreless inning in relief of Eckersley to notch his first victory.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest)."
],
"id": "en-slay-en-verb-1ElyvHHF",
"links": [
[
"defeat",
"defeat"
],
[
"overcome",
"overcome"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive, by extension, hyperbolic, informal) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest)."
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "conquer"
}
],
"tags": [
"broadly",
"excessive",
"informal",
"transitive"
]
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"word": "רָצַח"
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"code": "it",
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"code": "lt",
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"code": "oc",
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