slaying

• IPA^(key): /ˈsleɪ.ɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪɪŋ

slaying

1. present participle and gerund of slay

slaying (countable and uncountable, plural slayings)

1. Killing, especially the murder of a human.

   The slaying of the civil rights activist brought a storm of protest.

   • 1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran‎^[1], London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, surah 17, verse 31, page 285:

     Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.

     [original: وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَوْلَادَكُمْ خَشْيَةَ إِمْلَاقٍ ۖ نَحْنُ نَرْزُقُهُمْ وَإِيَّاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ قَتْلَهُمْ كَانَ خِطْئًا كَبِيرًا]

     walā taqtulū ʔawlādakum ḵašyata ʔimlāqin naḥnu narzuquhum wa-ʔiyyākum ʔinna qatlahum kāna ḵiṭʔan kabīran

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