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English noun: slaying

1. slaying (act) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being


Synonymsexecution, murder


Broader (hypernym)homicide


Narrower (hyponym)assassination, bloodshed, butchery, carnage, contract killing, dry-gulching, elimination, filicide, fratricide, gore, hit, infanticide, liquidation, lynching, mariticide, mass murder, massacre, parricide, regicide, shoot-down, slaughter, thuggee, tyrannicide, uxoricide









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