slay

Other forms of slay

past tense or participle

slain

past tense or participle

slew

present participle

slaying·

third person

slays·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slay

What does slay mean?

slay means "kill intentionally and with premeditation".

How many syllables are in slay?

slay has 1 syllable: slay. In IPA it is /ˈsleɪ/.

What is another word for slay?

Close synonyms include murder, hit, dispatch, bump off, off. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is slay a common word?

slay is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with slay?

1 word rhymes with slay. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.