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slay (SLAY) (verb)
1. To kill in a random and wanton manner: "Wild animals do not slay other animals just for recreation, but for food."
2. To delight or to amuse someone, or others, very much: "You slay me when you tell such outrageous jokes."
2. To delight or to amuse someone, or others, very much: "You slay me when you tell such outrageous jokes."
sleigh (SLAY) (noun)
A vehicle with runners used to drive across the snow or ice: "The horse pulled the red sleigh over the snow on the way back to the barn."
sleigh (SLAY) (verb)
To drive a large, open vehicle that is usually pulled by a horse over snow or ice: "The man from the city wanted to learn to sleigh during his winter vacation on the farm."
The way he tells the story of the runaway sleigh was so amusing, it could only slay (amuse) the audience.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group S; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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(Latin: caementa, "stone chips" from caedere, "to cut down, chop, beat, hew, fell, slay")