Slaying: alternatives and connections

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

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The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

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The business of a butcher.

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Flesh of slain animals or men.

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The act of expelling or throwing off

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The act of murdering a son or a daughter; also, parent who commits such a murder.

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The act of one who murders or kills his own brother.

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Dirt; mud.

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It.

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The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of a newly born or young child; child murder.

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The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated.

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of Lynch

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The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, t…

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Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

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One who kills or who murders a king; specifically (Eng.Hist.), one of the judges who condemned Charles I. to death.

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The act of killing.

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The practice of secret or stealthy murder by Thugs.

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The act of killing a tyrant.

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The murder of a wife by her husband.

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The killing of one human being by another.

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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.

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Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the m…

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Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the m…

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The act of executing; a carrying into effect or to completion; performance; achievement; consummation; as, the execution of a plan, a work, etc.

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The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

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