slay

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of SLAY

to deprive of life <millions have been slain worldwide by this dreadful disease>

Synonyms carry off, claim, croak [slang], destroy, dispatch, do in, fell, slay, take

Related Words bump off, butcher, cut down, finish, get, ice [slang], knock off, murder, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, scrag, snuff, take out, waste, whack [slang]; annihilate, blot out, decimate, kill off, massacre, mow, slaughter, smite; assassinate, execute, martyr, terminate; euthanize (also euthanatize), put down; suicide

Near Antonyms raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive; nurture

Antonyms animate

to put to death deliberately <vowed to slay without mercy whoever was responsible for murdering his family>

Synonyms assassinate, bump off, croak [slang], dispatch, do in, execute, get, ice [slang], knock off, liquidate, neutralize, off [slang], put away, rub out, slay, snuff, take out, terminate, whack [slang]

Related Words blow away, shoot, shoot down; blot out, carry off, claim, cut down, destroy, fell, kill, smite, zap; butcher, massacre, mow (down), slaughter; annihilate, eliminate, eradicate, exterminate, wipe out

Near Antonyms animate, raise, restore, resurrect, resuscitate, revive

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