The word 'slaying' can be used in written English.
Generally speaking, it is used to mean "victory" or "defeat" in a way that is particularly impressive or noteworthy. For example: "The Warriors dominated the court last night, slaying their opponents in a final score of 96-59."
I sold them to buy a gun – not to aim at the army soldiers, who were my colleagues and most likely did not have the chance to defect, but to fire against barbaric shabiha [militia], who were slaying people and with burning and smashing civilian houses.
And besides slaying infants, malaria makes adults too feverish to work.
Brazil had recently stopped telling banks to whom they should lend and at what price, and was in the process of slaying hyperinflation.
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The charge of "privatising the NHS" (roughly equivalent to slaying the first-born) was for decades enough to quash any bid to take on the monolith.
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Between then and now, many dragons still need slaying.
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To the ears of a zealot, such a denunciation sounds like an invitation to go out and claim a heavenly reward by slaying the offender.In this section America's unjust sex laws Unbalanced Germany How long till the lights go out?
