slay

Plural: slays

Verb

Verb Forms: slayed, slaying, slays, slew, slain

To kill a person or animal in a violent manner.
To impress, amuse, or overwhelm someone incredibly well.
kill intentionally and with premeditation
To kill; to murder.
To eradicate or stamp out.
To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
To have sex with.

Noun

Something excellent, amazing, or fashionable.
Alternative form of sley

Intj

Used to express approval or amazement.

Examples

Ha ha! You slay me!
He vowed to SLAY his opponent’s chances of winning with a perfectly placed block.
Her clever play of ’JINXES’ on the triple word score absolutely SLAYED the competition.
Our foes must all be slain.
The knight slew the dragon.
You must slay these thoughts.
Your outfit slays!

Origin / Etymology

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”).
Cognate 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.

Synonyms

bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, annihilate, bag, ball, bang, baptize, bauf, be with, bed, beep, bereave of life, blight, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, bring down, bury, cack, coit, coitize, compromised to a permanent end, conquer, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, dead, demolish, destroy, devour, dick, diddle, dig out, dight, dispose of, do, do in, doink, drill, dust, eat, eat and leave no crumbs, eff, eliminate, end, enjoy, eradicate, ex, excel, expletive deleted, exterminate, feague, feck, fill, finish, finish off, flatten, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go hard, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, grease, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit it out of the park, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, kick, kick ass, kill, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lay waste to, lie by, lie with, love, love up, make, make away with, mortify, mount, nail, neutralize, obliterate, occupy, pay off, penetrate, pick off, plough, plug, poke, pop off, pork, pound, prig, pump, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put six feet under, put someone out of their misery, put to sleep, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, rub out, ruin, rule, run through, rut, sard, schlong, scotch, screw, scupper, scuttle, season, seduce, see to, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, service, shaft, shag, shelve, shine, slap, slaughter, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smite, smush, snuff, squash, stallionize, stiff, stop someone's clock, swive, take, take care of, take down, take out, tap, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, top, top off, torpedo, tup, wap, waste, wax, wet, whack, wipe out, wreck

Scrabble Score: 7

slay: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
slay: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
slay: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 7

slay: valid Words With Friends Word