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— English words —

• slay v. (Now literary) To kill; to murder.
• slay v. (Literary) To eradicate or stamp out.
• slay v. (By extension, hyperbolic, colloquial) To defeat; to overcome (in a competition or contest).
• slay v. (Slang) To delight or overwhelm, especially with laughter.
• slay v. (Slang, transitive, intransitive) To amaze, stun, or otherwise incapacitate by excellence; to excel at something.
• slay v. (Slang) To have sex with.
• slay n. Alternative form of sley.
• Slay prop.n. A surname.

— Foreign words, define in English —

• Middle english
  • slay n. A sley or reed (part of a loom).
• Tày
  • slẩy n. Intestine.

— English word, defined in German —

• slay V. Literarisch; archaisch: jemanden gewaltsam umbringen; abschlachten.

— English words, defined in French —

• slay v. (Vieilli) Tuer, occire (surtout dans un contexte médiéval ou fictif).
• slay v. (Argot) étonner, impressionner.

— English word, defined in Spanish —

• slay v. Matar.

— English words, defined in Portuguese —

• slay v. Matar, assassinar.
• slay v. Conquistar, dominar.
• slay v. Destruir.

43 English words from 10 English definitions

Alternative amaze By␣extension colloquial competition contest defeat delight eradicate especially excel excellence extension form have have␣sex hyperbolic incapacitate Intestine intransitive kill laughter literary loom murder Now of␣a otherwise out overcome overwhelm part reed sex Slang sley something stamp stamp␣out stun surname transitive with

4 English words from 7 foreign definitions

Argot dans Matar surtout

18 foreign words from 7 foreign definitions

abschlachten archaisch assassinar Conquistar contexte Destruir dominar étonner fictif gewaltsam impressionner jemanden Literarisch médiéval occire Tuer umbringen Vieilli

31 suffixes (New words found by adding one or more letters at the end of the word.)

slayn slays Slays slayed slayee slayer slayor slayage Slayden slayees slayers slayest slayeth slaying slayors Slayton slayable Slaydens slayings Slaytons Slaybaugh slayingly Slaymaker slay␣queen Slaybaughs slayer␣rule Slaymakers slay␣queens slayer␣rules slayer␣statute slayer␣statutes

38 times in the middle (New words found by adding letters in front and at the end of the word.)

mislays reslays mislayer Dua's␣layer foreslays kinslayer manslayer mislayers mislaying overslays reslaying kingslayer kinslayers manslayers manslaying self-slayer unslayable demonslayer foreslaying kingslayers manslayings self-slayers absciss␣layer Crookes␣layer dragonslayer father-slayer Lazarus␣layer absciss␣layers brother-slayer Crookes␣layers deerslayer␣cap deerslayer␣hat dragonslayers father-slayers Lazarus␣layers brother-slayers deerslayer␣caps deerslayer␣hats

7 prefixes (New words found by adding one or more letters in front of the word.)

islay Islay mislay reslay foreslay overslay hack-and-slay

3 words-in-word (Words found as is inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

lay Lay SLA

5 words-in-word RTL (Words found written from right to left, inside the word. Minimum size 3 letters.)

als Als ALs ALS al's

One anagram (New word found by changing the order of the letters.)

lays

93 anagrams found with an extra letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word and an extra letter.)

acyls alays Aleys Almys amyls aryls Ashly asyla blays Blays clays Clays Dalys DALYs Dyals Ealys falsy flays Gasly gyals islay Islay ladsy Lamys Larys lashy Lasky lassy Lavys layes Layes layst lazy␣S leasy Loyas lyams lyars lyase Lygas lylas lyras Lysak lyssa Lyssa Malys myals Mylas mysal olays palsy +43 words

35 anagrams found minus a letter (New words formed with all the letters from the word minus a letter.)

als Als ALs ALS al's Aly asl ASL a/s/l ays AYs las LAs lay Lay LSA Ly-α lys Lys sal Sal SAL -sal sal- -sal- say SLA sly Sly syl- yas Yas YLs YLS YSL

34 cousins (New words found by changing only one letter.)

alay blay Blay clay Clay flay Flay olay play Seay shay Shay slab SLAC slag slam SLAM slan s.l.a.n. slap SLAs slat Slav slaw sley Smay Snay Soay spay stay Stay suay sway Sway

6 lipograms (New words found when removing only one letter.)

lay Lay say SLA sly Sly

5 epenthesis (New words found when adding only one letter.)

Salay Slaby slaty slazy splay

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