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slaying

noun as in homicide

noun as in killing

noun as in massacre

noun as in slaughter

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Example Sentences

But House Armed Services Committee Chairman Howard “Buck” McKeon sees a Taliban hand behind the slaying.

Lerer points to Exhibit A: his best-looking guy friend, who is 29 and “slaying it” in the dating world.

His slaying sums up the lawlessness now gripping the region and the impunity with which separatists can act.

Brushing aside the evidence, Reston held that “all of us had a part in the slaying of the president.”

Combined with zombie-slaying stunts and the scorching Georgia heat, conditions on set can be grueling.

Bruce and his men entered quietly in small parties, breaking open the doors and slaying all they found.

At the third charge he routed them, slaying or taking many; St John, however, escaping.

Douglas now broke ambush and cut off Webton from the castle, eventually slaying him and all his men.

Thinking thus, he might even have been content to go his ways and take his fill of vengeance by slaying Florimond upon the morrow.

It was not alone the slaying and offering of sacrifice, but also the sprinkling of blood that made atonement.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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