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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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slew (root: slay)

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Noun, Verb (usu participle)

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun slew has 1 sense

Verb slew has 2 senses

  • slew(v = verb.motion) curve, cut, sheer, slue, swerve, trend, veer - turn sharply; change direction abruptly; "The car cut to the left at the intersection"; "The motorbike veered to the right"
  • is one way to turn
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
  • slew(v = verb.motion) skid, slide, slip, slue - move obliquely or sideways, usually in an uncontrolled manner; "the wheels skidded against the sidewalk"
  • is one way to glide
    Sample sentences:
    Something ----s
    Somebody ----s
    Something is ----ing PP
    Somebody ----s PP

CIDE DICTIONARY

slewimp. 
     imp. of Slay.  [1913 Webster]
slewv. t. 
     See Slue.  [1913 Webster]
slewn. [See Slough a wet place.].
     A wet place; a river inlet.
    "The praire round about is wet, at times almost marshy, especially at the borders of the great reedy slews."  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

slew, v. & n. (also slue)
--v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by round) turn or swing forcibly or with effort out of the forward or ordinary position.
--n. such a change of position.

slew, past of SLAY(1).

slew, n. esp. US colloq. a large number or quantity.

Etymology
Ir. sluagh

THESAURUS

slew

batch, bunch, clump, cluster, considerable, copse, crop, deal, gobs, good deal, great deal, group, grouping, groupment, grove, hassock, heap, heaps, jillion, knot, lashings, loads, lot, lots, mess, million, mint, oodles, pack, peck, pile, piles, pot, quantities, quite a little, raft, rafts, scads, shock, sight, slews, spate, stack, stacks, stook, thicket, thousand, tidy sum, trillion, tuft, tussock, wad, wads, whole slew, wisp
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