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Meanings of slayer in English

Portuguese
assassino
Catalan
assassí
Spanish
asesino

Someone who causes the death of a person or animal.

        assassino
        Usage of slayer in English
        1
        A slayer?' There hadn't been a successful human slayer since... ever, really.
        Blood Rights
        2
        Aunt Evie was the most powerful slayer in the last thousand years.
        The accidental demon slayer
        3
        With this rod in his hand flew the strong slayer of Argos.
        The Odyssey of Homer
        4
        Let all those who served the brother-slayer bear him company in death.
        The Path to Honour
        5
        Then all the host started to pursue the slayer of their master.
        History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan / A Gramm...
        6
        All these years I have been the slave of my mother's slayer.
        The silver chair
        7
        Your honour, here is the name of the slayer of Erris Boyne.
        No Defense, Volume 3.
        8
        Analogy tells us, by the methods of the present slayer of Tarantulae.
        Bramble-Bees and Others
        9
        The trail of the slayer was fresh, even over such broken ground.
        Bruce
        10
        He was, in fact, a slayer of beasts- aforemanat the slaughter-house
        The Slave of the Lamp
        11
        Thou, O slayer of foes, art the Creator of all the worlds.
        The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 / Books 8,...
        12
        You didn't even know you were a slayer when I found you.
        The accidental demon slayer
        13
        So spake he, nor heedless was the messenger, the slayer of Argos.
        The Odyssey of Homer
        14
        The slayer of a hydra is discovered by trying on a shoe.
        The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16
        15
        Thou createst the Earth, the Welkin, and Heaven, O slayer of Madhu.
        The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
        16
        By such acts, O slayer of Madhu, the Rishis also are gratified.
        The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 / Books 13...
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        Spanish
        asesino
        Slayer through the time
        Slayer across language varieties
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