SLAYING

Meaning of SLAYING in English

[noun] [C] [esp. US]The suspect had moved to the Baltimore area several months before the girl's slaying (= murder).

Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012

SLAYING — (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Slay
Английский словарь Webster
SLAYING — ( p. pr. & vb. n. ) of Slay
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SLAYING — p.pr. & ·vb.n. of slay.
Webster English vocab
SLAYING — ➡ slay
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SLAYING — slay ‧ ing /ˈsleɪ-ɪŋ/ BrE AmE noun [countable] an act of killing someone – used especially in newspapers: gang-related slayings
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
SLAYING — ( slayings) A slaying is a murder. ( mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use killing ) ...a trail of motiveless …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SLAYING — (~s) A ~ is a murder. (mainly AM; in BRIT, usually use killing ) ...a trail of motiveless ~s. N-COUNT: …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
SLAYING — noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Half a dozen gang-related slayings have been reported this year. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
SLAYING — Synonyms and related words : bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dispatch, euthanasia, execution, extermination, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SLAYING — 25B6; noun (poetic/literary) MURDER, killing, butchery, slaughter, massacre, extermination, liquidation.
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
SLAYING — Убийство
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SLAYING — Убийство
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
SLAYING — Убийство!
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
SLAYING — Убийство
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
SLAYING — убивать убийство
Англо-Русский словарь
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SAMSON — Israelite warrior hero of the Old Testament Book of Judges. His mother had been told by an angel that she …
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QISHON RIVER — or Kishon River River, northern Israel. It rises near Mount Gilboa and flows northwest for about 25 mi (40 km) …
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ODYSSEUS — I Roman Ulysses Hero of Homer 's Odyssey . According to Homer, Odysseus was the king of Ithaca. His shrewdness, …
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MITHRA — In Indo-Iranian myth, the god of light. He was born bearing a torch and armed with a knife, beside a …
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SLAY — I. ˈslā verb ( slew -lü ; slain -lān ; slaying ; slays ) Etymology: Middle English slan, slen, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DEMA DEITY — any of several mythical ancestral beings of the Marind-Anim of southern New Guinea, the centre of a body of mythology …
Britannica English vocabulary
MITHRA — also spelled Mithras, Sanskrit Mitra, in ancient Indo-Iranian mythology, the god of light, whose cult spread from India in the …
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HERACLES — Greek Herakles, Roman Hercules most famous Greco-Roman legendary hero. Behind his very complicated mythology there was probably a real man, …
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GEORGE, SAINT — flourished 3rd century, ; d. traditionally Lydda, Palestine [now Lod, Israel]; feast day April 23 early Christian martyr who during …
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APOLLO — byname Phoebus, in Greek religion, a deity of manifold function and meaning, the most widely revered and influential of all …
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JUROR — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE grand ▪ Hatfield also declined to release the identities of the grand jurors . …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GRAND
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LABOUR — n. 25B6; noun manual labour : (HARD) WORK, toil, exertion, industry, drudgery, effort, donkey work, menial work; informal slog, grind, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
MURDER — n. 1 homicide, manslaughter, regicide, patricide, matricide, parricide, fratricide, sororicide, uxoricide, infanticide; killing, slaying, assassination In many countries, murder is …
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