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Definition of Slaying
1. Noun. Unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being.
Generic synonyms: Homicide
Specialized synonyms: 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
Derivative terms: Execute, Murder, Murderous, Slay
Definition of Slaying
1. Noun. Killing, especially murder of a human. ¹
2. Verb. (present participle of slay) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Slaying
1. slay [v] - See also: slay
Lexicographical Neighbors of Slaying
Literary usage of Slaying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come by John Bunyan (1879)
"Now the name of that man was Grim, or Bloody-man, because of his slaying of
pilgrims, and he was of the race of the giants. Great-heart. ..."
2. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"HEREIN IS TOLD OF THE slaying OF THE WOOERS IN THE HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS. BUT Odysseus
of many a rede of his rags he stripped him bare, And on the great ..."
3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"HEREIN IS TOLD OF THE slaying OF THE WOOERS IN THE HOUSE OF ODYSSEUS. BUT Odysseus
of many a rede of his rags he stripped him bare, And on the great ..."
4. The Story of Grettir the Strong by Eiríkr Magnússon, William Morris (1900)
"After the slaying of Thorgils, his folk went back east to ... heard of the slaying
of Thorgils his kinsman; he was suitor in the case for Thorgils' slaying, ..."
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