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slay /sleɪ/ verb (past tense slew /sluː/, past participle slain /sleɪn/) [transitive] 1. KILL literary to kill someone – used especially in newspapers 杀害，残杀，谋杀〔尤用于报纸上〕► see thesaurus at kill2. American English spoken informalFUNNY to amuse someone a lot 逗得…大笑 —slayer noun [countable]→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpusslay• Roll two dice scoring 4 and 6 a further 2 men slain.• Now, detectives are investigating the possibility that a fourth woman may have been slain by the retired Army sergeant.• Coretta King is the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.• Hercules slew Diomedes first and then drove off the mares unopposed.• Tens of thousands were slain, drowned by waves, buried by earthquakes, struck by magical lightning.• A Pump Wagon is dependent on its crew for mobility, so once its crew are all slain it can not move.• That guy really slays me!• You'd slay them you would!Origin slay Old English slean “to hit, kill”slay verbChinese used Corpus someone – kill especially to in |