Slew
[sluː] or [slu]
Definition
(imp.) of Slay
(-) imp. of Slay.
(v. t.) See Slue.
Editor: Ramon
Definition
pa.t. of slay.
Edited by Georgina
Examples
- It was with those Pablo slew the post at Otero. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- If any other man wandered into his visible universe he fought him, and if he could he slew him. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I followed the tracks in the snow and high up I found them together and slew them both. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- While the Moors governed there, and the Spanish mixed with them, a Spanish cavalier, in a sudden quarrel, slew a young Moorish gentleman, and fled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He entered the Labyrinth (which may have been the Cnossos Palace) by the aid of Ariadne, the daughter of Minos, and slew the Minotaur. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This is the man who slew seven of the First Born and, bare-handed, bound Dator Xodar with his own harness? Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The boys crowded about us, clamored around us, and slewed their donkeys exactly across our path, no matter which way we turned. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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