slays
SaySLAYZ/sleɪz/
- 1Third-person singular simple present of slay.
In every retelling, the warrior slays the serpent that guarded the spring.
Her closing number slays the audience night after night.
Note
The present-tense form is regular, which hides how irregular the rest of the verb is: the past is slew and the participle slain, relics of an old strong-verb pattern. One spelling serves two very different registers. In the literary one, a warrior slays a dragon. In the slang one, a performer slays the crowd. Only the context tells the reader which is meant.
slays is a form of slay
slay, verb: To kill a person or animal, especially in a deliberate or violent act. Full entry
- Spelling
- slay → slays: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
Use it in a sentence
Write your own sentence with slays, and AI will tell you whether it fits and which meaning you used.