English noun: slaying | |||
1. | slaying (act) unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being | ||
Synonyms | execution, 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 | ||