Define the word slew"Slew" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slew \Slew\ (sl[=oo]), n. [See Slough a wet place.]
A wet place; a river inlet.
The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy,
especially at the borders of the great reedy slews.
--T.
Roosevelt.
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"Slew" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slew \Slew\, v. t.
See Slue.
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"Slew" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slew \Slew\,
imp. of Slay.
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"Slew" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slay \Slay\, v. t. [imp. Slew; p. p. Slain; p. pr. & vb. n.
Slaying.] [OE. slan, sl?n, sleen, slee, AS. sle['a]n to
strike, beat, slay; akin to OFries. sl[=a], D. slaan, OS. &
OHG. slahan, G. schlagen, Icel. sl[=a], Dan. slaae, Sw. sl?,
Goth. slahan; perhaps akin to L. lacerare to tear to pieces,
Gr. ????, E. lacerate. Cf. Slaughter, Sledge a hammer,
Sley.]
To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to
kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
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With this sword then will I slay you both. --Chaucer.
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I will slay the last of them with the sword. --Amos ix.
1.
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I'll slay more gazers than the basilisk. --Shak.
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Syn: To kill; murder; slaughter; butcher.
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"slew" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Slue \Slue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Slued; p. pr. & vb. n.
Sluing.] [Prov. E. slew to turn round, Scot. to lean or
incline to a side; cf. Icel. sn?a to turn, bend.] [Written
also slew.]
1. (Naut.) To turn about a fixed point, usually the center or
axis, as a spar or piece of timber; to turn; -- used also
of any heavy body.
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2. In general, to turn about; to twist; -- often used
reflexively and followed by round. [Colloq.]
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They laughed, and slued themselves round. --Dickens.
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"slew" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
slay
v : kill intentionally and with premeditation; "The mafia boss
ordered his enemies murdered" [syn: murder, hit, dispatch,
bump off, polish off, remove]
[also: slew, slain]
"slew" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
slew
n : (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
"a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of
money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "it must
have cost plenty" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess,
mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot,
quite a little, raft, sight, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew]
v 1: turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the
left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the
right" [syn: swerve, sheer, curve, trend, veer,
slue, cut]
2: move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled
manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk" [syn: skid,
slip, slue, slide]
"slew" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
slew
See slay
"slew" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "slew":
batch, bunch, clump, cluster, considerable, copse, crop, deal,
gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove,
hassock, heap, heaps, jillion, knot, lashings, loads, lot, lots,
mess, million, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, pot,
quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, shock, sight,
slews, spate, stack, stacks, stook, thicket, thousand, tidy sum,
trillion, tuft, tussock, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp
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