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Slew   /slu/   Listen
Slew

verb
1.
Turn sharply; change direction abruptly.  Synonyms: curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer.  "The motorbike veered to the right"
2.
Move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner.  Synonyms: skid, slide, slip, slue.
noun
1.
(often followed by 'of') a large number or amount or extent.  Synonyms: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad.  "A deal of trouble" , "A lot of money" , "He made a mint on the stock market" , "See the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos" , "It must have cost plenty" , "A slew of journalists" , "A wad of money"


Slay

verb
(past slew; past part. slain; pres. part. slaying)
1.
Kill intentionally and with premeditation.  Synonyms: bump off, dispatch, hit, murder, off, polish off, remove.



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"Slew" Quotes from Famous Books



... Emperor; and he had a habit of saying, "What have I to fear? I cannot be assassinated; I can die only on the field of battle." But even on the field of battle he took no care of himself, and at Essling, for example, exposed himself like a chief of battalion who wants to be a colonel; bullets slew those in front, behind, beside him, but he did not budge. It was then that a terrified general cried, "Sire, if your Majesty does not retire, it will be necessary for me to have you carried off by my grenadiers." ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... wouldn't ask me that If ever you had felt your baby's sweet warm lips on yours, you would know that it is mother-love that makes tigers of women. Because I idolized my little one, I could not bear the cruel wrong of having him torn from me, taught to despise me; and so I loved him best when I slew him, and I was so mad, with the delirium of pain and rage and despair, that I forgot I was putting the gulf of perdition between us. Rather than submit to separation in this world, than have him raised by ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... walls. Here, after a desperate combat with those who were stationed to guard the place, they succeeded in gaining admission, and then opened the gates to their comrades below. The Persian soldiers, exasperated with the resistance which they had encountered, slew the soldiers of the garrison, perpetrated every imaginable violence on the wretched inhabitants who had fled there for shelter, and then plundered the citadel and set it ...
— Xerxes - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
... liege, I will obey, And by my sword I hope to win the day. If that be he who doth stand there That slew my master's son and heir, Though he be sprung from royal blood I'll make ...
— The Peace Egg and Other tales • Juliana Horatia Ewing
... Grettir slew two of the Halogaland men there in the enclosure. Four of the serving-men then came up. They had not been able to agree upon which arms each should take, but they came out to the attack directly the berserks were running away; ...
— Grettir The Strong - Grettir's Saga • Unknown


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