slayer

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slay

(slā)

tr.v. slew (slo͞o) or slayed or slain (slān) or slayed, slay·ing, slays

1. To kill violently.

2. Slang To overwhelm, as with laughter or love: Those old jokes still slay me.

[Middle English slen, slayen, from Old English slēan.]

slay′er n.

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Noun

slayer - someone who causes the death of a person or animal

killer

individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"

executioner, public executioner - an official who inflicts capital punishment in pursuit of a warrant

eradicator, exterminator, terminator - someone who exterminates (especially someone whose occupation is the extermination of troublesome rodents and insects)

choker, garroter, garrotter, throttler, strangler - someone who kills by strangling

liquidator, manslayer, murderer - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)

poisoner - someone who kills with poison

regicide - someone who commits regicide; the killer of a king

felo-de-se - a person who kills himself intentionally

slayer

noun

One who murders another:

butcher, cutthroat, homicide, killer, manslayer, massacrer, murderer, murderess, slaughterer, triggerman.

Translations

assassino uccisore

slayer

[ˈsleɪəʳ] N → asesino/a m/f

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slayer

[ˈsleɪə^r] n (= killer) → tueur/euse m/f

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slayer

n (liter) → Mörder(in) m(f), → Töter(in) m(f) (old liter)

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Thus shamefully did Achilles in his fury dishonour Hector; but the blessed gods looked down in pity from heaven, and urged Mercury, slayer of Argus, to steal the body.

The gods would have Mercury slayer of Argus steal the body, but in furtherance of our peace and amity henceforward, I will concede such honour to your son as I will now tell you.

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For courage is the best slayer,--courage which ATTACKETH: for in every attack there is sound of triumph.

Courage is the best slayer: courage slayeth also fellow-suffering.

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SECOND MESSENGER Beside the altar on a keen-edged sword She fell and closed her eyes in night, but erst She mourned for Megareus who nobly died Long since, then for her son; with her last breath She cursed thee, the slayer of her child.

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To be apprehended as the slayer of Mohammed Beyd would be equivalent to a sentence of immediate death.

This seemingly unnecessary act I shall explain upon the grounds that Mohammed Beyd had conceived a violent passion for you and that he so regretted the act by which he had become your slayer that he could not endure the silent reproach of your lifeless body."

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And he charged Hermes the guide, the Slayer of Argus, to put in her a shameless mind and a deceitful nature.

Also the Guide, the Slayer of Argus, contrived within her lies and crafty words and a deceitful nature at the will of loud thundering Zeus, and the Herald of the gods put speech in her.

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Again and again this phrase beat monotonously upon his brain--a dull, throbbing pain, yet mechanically his feet followed the trail of her slayer while, subconsciously, his every sense was upon the alert for the ever-present perils of the jungle.

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Then Chaka, according to custom, despatched the slayers to eat up his kraal, and they came to the kraal and killed his people.

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His wife was long since dead, and his three sons, not yet married, in a foray behind the bounds of Somo had lost their heads in the jungle runways of the higher hills and been devoured by their bushman slayers.