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“It brings me little joy to approach anyone and slay them,” he said.

Their initiation is to slay an infant in front of its mother in order to remove any semblance of humanity or emotion.

But because these tax cuts have powerful, well-connected constituencies, it has been difficult to slay them.

It was only a matter of time before these two enormous egos would clash—and try to slay each other.

Even when she's forced to slay a dragon, she's on autopilot, going through the motions.

On land and in sea the animal creation chase and maim, and slay and devour each other.

So we were wroth and made to slay the other baas, but he shot us down with a fire stick and returned to his own country in haste.

Her tragic attitude, her wondrous beauty, awed the men, and they lowered the guns that had been raised to slay the father.

And they shall bring upon thee a multitude, and they shall stone thee with stones, and shall slay thee with their swords.

Wilt thou yet say before them that slay thee: I am God; whereas thou art a man, and not God, in the hand of them that slay thee?

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On this page you'll find 89 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to slay, such as: assassinate, butcher, destroy, dispatch, execute, and exterminate.

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

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