slaying

Other forms: slayings

Definitions of slaying

1. noun

   unlawful premeditated killing of a human being by a human being
   synonyms: execution, murder

   types:

   assassination

   murder of a public figure by surprise attack

   bloodshed, gore

   the shedding of blood resulting in murder

   contract killing

   a murder carried out on agreement with a hired killer

   parricide

   the murder of your own father or mother

   mariticide

   the murder of a husband by his wife

   fratricide

   the murder of your sibling

   uxoricide

   the murder of a wife by her husband

   filicide

   the murder of your own son or daughter

   elimination, liquidation

   the murder of a competitor

   butchery, carnage, mass murder, massacre, slaughter

   the savage and excessive killing of many people

   lynching

   putting a person to death by mob action without due process of law

   regicide

   the act of killing a king

   dry-gulching

   the act of killing from ambush

   hit

   a murder carried out by an underworld syndicate

   infanticide

   murdering an infant

   shoot-down

   murder by shooting someone down in cold blood

   tyrannicide

   killing a tyrant

   thuggee

   murder and robbery by thugs

   matricide

   the murder of one's own mother

   patricide

   the murder of your father

   battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed

   indiscriminate slaughter

   type of:

   homicide

   the killing of a human being by another human being