Meaning

1 senses

  1. Used to express approval or amazement.

Examples

26 sentences

  1. We need someone to slay the dragon.

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  2. Paul came here to slay the monster.

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  3. Stefan must slay the one-eyed monster.

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  4. He slayed the dragon and saved the princess.

    ruОн сразил дракона и спас принцессу. — Wezel

    deEr erschlug den Drachen und rettete die Prinzessin. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

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  5. The hero ventured into the cave to slay the fearsome firedrake.

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Origin

From Middle English sleen, slen, from Old English slēan (“to hit, punch, strike; to kill”)

From Middle English sleen, slen, from Old English slēan (“to hit, punch, strike; to kill”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to hit, strike; to kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).

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See also

neighbours in the dictionary
slaverslaveryB1slawslayersleazysled

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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