v. 25B6; verb
(poetic/literary) 8,000 men were slain : KILL, murder, put to death, butcher, cut down, cut to pieces, slaughter, massacre, shoot down, gun down, mow down, eliminate, annihilate, exterminate, liquidate; informal wipe out, bump off, do in/for.
(informal) you slay me, you really do : AMUSE GREATLY, entertain greatly, make someone laugh; informal have people rolling in the aisles, kill, knock dead, be a hit with.