Word Finder - slay

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To kill, murder.

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Our foes must all be slain.

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To eradicate or stamp out.

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You must slay these thoughts.

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(by extension) To defeat, overcome (in a competition or contest).

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1956, “Giants Slay Bears in Pro Title Battle”, in Lodi News-Sentinel, 1956 December 31, page 8.

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To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.

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Ha ha! You slay me!

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To amaze, stun or otherwise incapacitate by awesomeness; to be awesome at something; to kill (slang sense).

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To have sex with

How could any human be so heartless to slay an infant?

Darkyn did not slay the Dark One.

But to each of these he gave a knife with injunctions to slay her husband on the marriage night.

According to one of them, the first race was that between Pelops and Oenomaus, who used to challenge the suitors of his daughter Hippodameia and then slay them.

Another story is that they were presumptuous enough to seek Artemis and Hera in marriage, and that Artemis caused them to slay each other unintentionally on the island of Naxos, where they were afterwards worshipped as heroes.

Usually a hero steps forward to slay the beast, and the story has a happy ending- at least as far as the villagers are concerned.

He was represented in works of art as carrying off the body of the dead Patroclus or lifting up his hand to slay Helen.

In the desperate battle under the walls of the city, he was severely wounded by Melanippus, but managed to slay his adversary.

Though an eclipse of the sun prevented his bringing with him more than a handful of troops, he overthrew the tyrant's far superior force on the ridge of Cynoscephalae; but wishing to slay Alexander with his own hand, he rushed forward too eagerly and was cut down by the tyrant's guards.

It was difficult to start a subject that might result in a fight, but she had to know for sure — slay the dragon, so to speak.

I'm reluctant to slay this sacred cow because it looks plain churlish, but somebody has to call it.

At the former, St George comes down from the hill to slay the dragon at a well beneath a tree.

It says that he used an ox goad to slay these 600 Philistines.

You can slay trolls and dragons, spend time shopping for new togs, or sending messages to your friends.

As a premise they don't necessarily look interesting " Typical All American girl gets called on to slay vampires and save world " .

In one conflict a giant thought to slay him, but he was saved by Abishai, the brother of Joab, and the men took an oath that David should no more go to battle lest he " quench the light of Israel."

It falls on tile tenth, and two or three following days, of the last month, Dhu-l-hijja, when the pilgrims each slay a ram, a he-goat, a cow or a camel in the valley of Mind in commemoration of the ransom of Ishmael with a ram.

The exiles had among them desperadoes who could slay; and, besides exciting the enmity of the Anglican clergy about the king, who bitterly resented the secularist spirit of his book, he had compromised himself with the French authorities by his elaborate attack on the papal system.

Pierre still considered that it would be a useful and worthy action to slay the evildoer, but now he felt that he would not do it.

What made those people burn houses and slay their fellow men?

The killer doll is back and his family must slay together in order to stay together.

There are other parents, however, who believe that swords and other pretend toys encourage children to use their imaginations as they battle dragons and slay evil knights.

Each of the two to five players have a team of three to six Jedi that slay enemies on the board.

Cobalt blue Manolo Blahnik wedding shoes were popularized by Carrie's Sex and the City wedding debut, but offscreen the effect of such a daringly different fashion maneuver can absolutely slay the elegance of your bridal attire.

Jabba has him thrown the the Raccor, a dinosaur-like beast that Luke manages to slay.

Knowledge that an heir to Isildur is returning to claim the vacant throne drives him mad, and he dies by his own hand, while trying to slay his surviving son.

Louis is the original 'vampire with a soul', who feeds but not to slay, mocked by Lestat for his wishy-washy ways.

Like his brother Mahommed (1104-1118), who successfully rebelled against him, his most dangerous enemies were the Ismailites, who had succeeded in taking the fortress of Alamut (north of Kazvin) and become a formidable political power by the organization of bands of fedais, who were always ready, even at the sacrifice of their own lives, to murder any one whom they were commanded to slay.

As Asahel would not desist from the pursuit, though warned, Abner was compelled to slay him in self-defence.

The provincial governors were enjoined to take the Jews under their protection, and leave was given to the latter to slay those of their kinsmen who had deserted the faith.

Philippic entitled " Shall I Slay my Brother Boer?

As a premise they do n't necessarily look interesting " Typical All American girl gets called on to slay vampires and save world ".

Follow the hunt as Mike tries to slay and his doctor tries to keep up with his tracks.

Each man slew his wife and children; ten men were selected by lot to slay the rest; one man slew the nine executioners, fired the palace and fell upon his sword.

This squadron never reached Egypt, for the crews, composed as they were of Polycrates' political enemies, suspecting that Cambyses was under agreement to slay them, put back to Samos and attacked their master.

On returning to Rome, Felix was accused of having taken advantage of a dispute between the Jews and Syrians of Caesarea to slay and plunder the inhabitants, but through the intercession of his brother, the freedman Pallas, who had great influence with the emperor Nero, he escaped unpunished.

The princess would slay him, but is withheld by her mother, who sees they have need of Tristan's aid to unmask the seneschal.

Yet he could still gather a force which enabled him to seize Segesta, to slay or enslave the whole population, and to settle the city with new inhabitants.

Their name for Antichrist is Dajjal, and they have a tradition that Jesus will slay Antichrist by the gate of Lydda.

Zeus, to conceal the amour, changed Callisto into a she-bear; Hera, however, discovered it, and persuaded Artemis to slay Callisto, who was placed amongst the stars as iiptcros (" the bear").

I hummed a tune I remembered my mother singing to me as I strolled to the barn to slay the lying witch-bitch who thought she'd tricked.

It was difficult to start a subject that might result in a fight, but she had to know for sure — slay the dragon, so to speak.

Slay the White God, slay the balance.

He is said to have established the rule that any candidate for the office should meet and slay in single combat its holder at the time, who always went about armed with a drawn sword in anticipation of the struggle.

The members then trooped out, Cromwell crying after them, "It is you that have forced me to this; for I have sought the Lord night and day that He would rather slay me than put me upon the doing this work."

The devil-worshippers, at their sacrifices, slay the ox; and this the daevas favour, for they are foes to the cattle and to cattlebreeding, and friends to those who work ill to the cow.

The Israelites were commanded to select on the tenth of Abib (Nisan) a he-lamb of the first year, without blemish, to kill it on the eve of the fourteenth and to sprinkle with its blood the lintel and sidepost of the doors of their dwellings so that the Lord should "pass over" them when he went forth to slay the first-born of the Egyptians.

Heracles, on his way back from the land of the Amazons, offered to slay the monster and release Hesione, on condition that he should receive the wonderful horses presented by Zeus to Tros, the father of Ganymede, to console him for the loss of his son.

Before setting out, the seer charged his sons to slay their mother as soon as they heard of his death.

I slay a man for a wound, A young man for a stroke; For Cain's vengeance is sevenfold, But Lamech's seventy-fold and seven."