slaying

synonyms

bane

blood

bloodletting

bloodshed

braining

dealing death

destruction

destruction of life

dispatch

euthanasia

execution

extermination

flow of blood

gore

immolation

kill

killing

lapidation

martyrdom

martyrization

mercy killing

poisoning

ritual killing

ritual murder

sacrifice

shooting

slaughter

stoning

taking of life

hypernyms

homicide

hyponyms

Thuggee

assassination

bloodshed

butchery

carnage

contract killing

dry-gulching

elimination

filicide

fratricide

gore

hit

infanticide

liquidation

lynching

mariticide

mass murder

massacre

parricide

regicide

shoot-down

slaughter

tyrannicide

uxoricide

rhymes

allaying

arraying

baying

betraying

buffeting

conveying

crocheting

decaying

delaying

dismaying

disobeying

displaying

doomsaying

fraying

graying

greying

haying

laying

nonpaying

obeying

overplaying

paying

playing

portraying

praying

prepaying

preying

purveying

repaying

replaying

saying

spraying

staying

straying

surveying

swaying

weighing