Slay

//sleɪ//

Synonyms for "slay" (295 found)

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Closest matches (59)

Strong matches (89)

Related words (147)

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Translations

63 translations across 34 languages.

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Ancient Greek

1 entries
  • ἀποκτείνω verb (to kill, murder)

Arabic

3 entries
  • أَزْهَقَ رُوحَهُ verb (to kill, murder)
  • ذَبَحَ verb (to kill, murder)
  • قَتَلَ verb (to kill, murder)

Armenian

1 entries
  • սպանել verb (to kill, murder)

Belarusian

2 entries
  • забі́ць verb (to kill, murder)
  • забіва́ць verb (to kill, murder)

Bulgarian

1 entries
  • убивам verb (to kill, murder)

Catalan

2 entries
  • assassinar verb (to kill, murder)
  • matar verb (to kill, murder)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 殘殺 /残杀 verb (to kill, murder)
  • 殺 /杀 verb (to kill, murder)
  • 謀殺 /谋杀 verb (to kill, murder)

Danish

1 entries
  • dræbe verb (to kill, murder)

Dutch

2 entries
  • doden verb (to kill, murder)
  • vermoorden verb (to kill, murder)

Egyptian

1 entries
  • s-mA-A-T30 verb (to kill, murder)

Finnish

2 entries
  • surmata verb (to kill, murder)
  • tappaa verb (to kill, murder)

French

3 entries
  • assassiner verb (to kill, murder)
  • occire verb (to kill, murder)
  • tuer verb (to kill, murder)

German

3 entries
  • erschlagen verb (to kill, murder)
  • töten verb (to kill, murder)
  • umbringen verb (to kill, murder)

Greek

1 entries
  • σκοτώνω verb (to kill, murder)

Hebrew

1 entries
  • רָצַח verb (to kill, murder)

Hungarian

1 entries
  • öl verb (to kill, murder)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • bana verb (to kill, murder)

Ido

1 entries
  • ocidar verb (to kill, murder)

Ingrian

4 entries
  • leikata verb (to kill, murder)
  • mukistaa verb (to kill, murder)
  • surmata verb (to kill, murder)
  • tappaa verb (to kill, murder)

Italian

2 entries
  • assassinare verb (to kill, murder)
  • uccidere verb (to kill, murder)

Japanese

1 entries
  • 殺す verb (to kill, murder)

Latin

4 entries
  • interficiō verb (to kill, murder)
  • lētō verb (to kill, murder)
  • necō verb (to kill, murder)
  • occīdō verb (to kill, murder)

Latvian

1 entries
  • kaut verb (to kill, murder)

Lithuanian

1 entries
  • nužudyti verb (to kill, murder)

Occitan

4 entries
  • assassinar verb (to kill, murder)
  • aucir verb (to kill, murder)
  • matar verb (to kill, murder)
  • tuar verb (to kill, murder)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • assassinar verb (to kill, murder)
  • matar verb (to kill, murder)

Romanian

3 entries
  • asasina verb (to kill, murder)
  • omorî verb (to kill, murder)
  • ucide verb (to kill, murder)

Russian

2 entries
  • уби́ть verb (to kill, murder)
  • убива́ть verb (to kill, murder)

Sanskrit

1 entries
  • हन्ति verb (to kill, murder)

Spanish

2 entries
  • asesinar verb (to kill, murder)
  • matar verb (to kill, murder)

Swedish

2 entries
  • dräpa verb (to kill, murder)
  • slå ihjäl verb (to kill, murder)

Tagalog

2 entries
  • paslangin verb (to kill, murder)
  • patayin verb (to kill, murder)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • kau verb (to kill, murder)

Tok Pisin

1 entries
  • kilim verb (to kill, murder)

Sample sentences

26 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

She slayed that presentation.

Source: slang_seed

His jokes really slay me.

Source: tatoeba (716416)

Then on the third day, when they saw the mountain where they had to go to slay Isaac, then Abraham said to those two servants thus:

Source: tatoeba (1178440)

'Now that I have realized that you truly fear God, now that you would slay your only begotten son for him.'

Source: tatoeba (1178469)

Showing 4 of 26 available sentences.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.