slaying

DEFINITIONS OF: slaying

Examples:: Alamo
a siege and massacre at a mission in San Antonio in 1836; Mexican forces under Santa Anna besieged and massacred American rebels who were fighting to make Texas independent of Mexico; Battle of the Little Bighorn
a battle in Montana near the Little Bighorn River between United States cavalry under Custer and several groups of Native Americans (1876); Custer was pursuing Sioux led by Sitting Bull; Custer underestimated the size of the Sioux forces (which were supported by Cheyenne warriors) and was killed along with all his command

Types:: show 21 types...; hide 21 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 your mother; patricide
the murder of your father; battue, bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed
indiscriminate slaughter

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